 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 pages
...: Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have lived, to have thought, to have done, To have advanced true friends and beat down baffling foes ? CORNELL, 210 WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE: IN TIME OF WAR. THE moment seems opportune for probing the soundness... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...embroiled By sadness and self-will, Shall we judge what for man is not true bliss or is ? Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light...state, And relegate to worlds yet distant our repose ? Not much, I know, you prize What pleasures may be had, Who look on life with eyes Estranged, like... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1868 - 264 pages
...self-will, Shall we judge what for man is not true bliss or is? Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have...state, And relegate to worlds yet distant our repose ? Not much, I know, you prize What pleasures may be had, Who look on life with eyes Estranged, like... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...self-will, Shall we judge what for man is not true bliss or is ? Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have...state, And relegate to worlds yet distant our repose? Not much, I know, you prize What pleasures may be had, Who look on life with eyes Estranged, like mine,... | |
 | 1872 - 842 pages
...putting off both goodness and happiness to some far-off, divine world across the Jordan. " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light...state, And relegate to worlds yet distant our repose?" We have too many of that class of men in the ministry described by George Eliot, as "having no taste... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1872 - 796 pages
...goodness and happiness to some far-off, divine world across the Jordan. " Is it so small a thing To huvc enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ; i To have advanced true friends, and heat down baffling foes, — That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 438 pages
...debarred from dreams of a distant and dubious happiness in a world outside of ours. " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ? " The poorest villager feels that it is not so small a thing that he should not be loth to lose the... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 438 pages
...debarred from dreams of a distant and dubious happiness in a world outside of ours. " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ? " The poorest villager feels that it is not so small a thing that he should not be loth to lose the... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1876 - 440 pages
...debarred from dreams of a distant and dubious happiness in a world outside of ours. " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ? " The poorest villager feels that it is not so small a thing that he should not be loth to lose the... | |
 | 1877 - 938 pages
...on Etna assigns to human existence in itself, without thought of a possible future. " Is it a little thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light...have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have helped friends and boat down baffling foes ?" All this Titian enjoyed for a full century, and because... | |
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Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes... 
