| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 pages
...deceiv'd ; whilst man doth ransack man. And builds on blood, and rises by distress ; And th' inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes : he...peace, with unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. FROM 'HYMEN'S TRIUMPH. Ah ! I remember well (and how can I But evermore remember well) when first /Our... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 pages
...decdv'd ; whilst man doth ransack man, And builds on blood, and rises by distress ; And th' inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes : he...peace, with unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. FROM 'HYMEN'S TRIUMPH. Ah ! I remember well (and how can I But evermore remember well) when first Our... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 pages
...deceiv'd ; whilst man doth ransack man, And builds on blood, and rises by distress ; And th' inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes : he...peace, with unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. FROM 'HYMEN'S TRIUMPH.' Ah ! I remember well (and how can I But evermore remember well) when first... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - 544 pages
...deceived ; whilst man doth ransack me, And builds on blood, and rises by distress; And the inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes —...of peace, with unwet eye, And bears no venture in imoiety. VoL. VII.— 18 VII. Thus, madam, fares that man that hath prepared A rest for his desires... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1902 - 438 pages
...builds on blood, and rises by distress; And th' inheritance of desolation leaves To great expecting hopes : he looks thereon, As from the shore of peace,...with unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety.' Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion is a work of great length and of unabated freshness and vigour in itself,... | |
| Thomas Seccombe, John William Allen - 1903 - 380 pages
...builds on blood and rises by distress ; And the inheritance of desolation leaves To great expecting hopes ; he looks thereon As from the shore of peace with unwet eye And bears no venture in impiety.' This is Daniel at his best ; but he is equally at his best in that very graceful and truly Arcadian... | |
| Arthur Symons - 1906 - 526 pages
...deceived; whilst man dotli ransack man, And builds on blood, and rises by distress; And the inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes: he...unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. Thus, madam, fares the man that hath prepared A rest for his desires; and sees all things Beneath him; and... | |
| Arthur Symons - 1906 - 426 pages
...deceived; whilst man doth ransack man, And builds on blood, and rises by distress; And the inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes: he...unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. Thus, madam, fares the man that hath prepared A rest for his desires; and sees all things Beneath him ; and... | |
| 1906 - 218 pages
...deceived ; whilst man doth ransack man, And builds on blood, and rises by distress ; And th' inheritance of desolation leaves To great-expecting hopes ; he...unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. Thus, Madam, fares the man that hath prepared A rest for his desires, and sees all things Beneath him, and... | |
| Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 pages
...builds on blood, and rises by distress ; And th' inheritance of desolation leaves To great expecting hopes ; he looks thereon As from the shore of peace,...unwet eye, And bears no venture in impiety. Thus, Madam, fares that man that hath prepar'd A rest for his desires ; and sees all things Beneath him ;... | |
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