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" This is the curse of life ! that not A nobler, calmer train Of wiser thoughts and feelings blot Our passions from our brain ; But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must And not because we will. "
Literary and Social Judgments - Page 331
by William Rathbone Greg - 1873 - 352 pages
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1853 - 298 pages
...and feelings blot Our passions from our brain ; But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. I struggle towards the light ; and ye, Once long'd-for storms of love ! If with the light ye cannot'...
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The Sunday at Home, Volume 43

1896 - 858 pages
...them." " Do you remember Arnold's lines? — "'But each day brings its petty dust, Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must And not because we will'" — I quoted. " ' The world is too much with ue ; late and soon, Getting anil spending, we lay waste...
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Dorothy: A Tale

Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - 324 pages
...and feelings blot Our passions from our brain : But each day brings its petty dust, Our soon chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. M. ABNOLD. /"I HUDLEIGH HOUSE was a square, substantial '-' mansion of modern date, more comfortable...
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 pages
...and feelings blot Our passions from our brain ; But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. I struggle towards the light; and ye, Once long'd-for storms of love ! If with the light ye cannot...
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Dorothy: A Tale

Margaret Agnes Paull - 1857 - 332 pages
...and feelings blot Our passions from our brain : But each day brings its petty dust, Our soon chok'd souls to fill. And we forget because we must, And not because we will. M. ABNOLD. CHUDLEIGH HOUSE was a square, substantial mansion of modern date, more comfortable than...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 49

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1861 - 570 pages
...and feelings blot Our passions from our brain ; " But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. "I struggle towards the light ; and ye, Once long'd-for storms of love, If with the light ye cannot...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 16; Volume 20

George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 832 pages
...calmer, train Of wiser thoughts and feelings blot Our pasvions from our brain. Bnt each day brings its petty dust, Our soon choked souls to fill; And...over, like the temples of Egypt or the tombs of the Campagna — not conquered. It is the same, too, usually, with our faults. " Time " cures them, we...
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Friends' Quarterly Examiner, Volume 1

1867 - 624 pages
...pass that in his case it should not be true that — " Each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will." For the fine and delicately-pencilled sketch of this happy intercourse which this book contains, I...
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The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted ..., Volume 25

Robert Hall Baynes - 1879 - 672 pages
...and feelings blot Our passions from our brain. " But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill ; And we forget because we must, And not because we will." If, then, journalism has a seamy side, it is a side which presents itself just as clearly to the journalist...
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Narrative and elegiac poems

Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...thoughts and feelings blot Our passions from our brain; But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. I struggle towards the light; and ye, Once-long'd-for storms of love ! If with the light ye cannot...
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