 They wandered once; clear as the dew on flowers: But they fed not on the advancing hours: Their hearts held cravings for the buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer...  The Living Age - Pagina 3271909Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1868 - 846 pagina’s
...fathers were coûtent with their pin-hole views of the universe. Nevertheless, he has already learned — What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life ! Christendom has now become a vast readingroom, and its library is chiefly remarkable for its miscellaneous... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1882 - 402 pagina’s
...of the woods Emerson then surprised, which I saw not. Many have learned, with George Meredith — " What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life." But it is the characteristic of our time that the certainties are hotter after mortals than these are... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 344 pagina’s
...of the woods Emerson then surprised, which I saw not. Many have learned, with George Meredith— " What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life." But it is the characteristic of our time that the certainties are hotter after mortals than these are... | |
 | William Sharp - 1886 - 402 pagina’s
...knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul WThen hot for certainties in this our life ! In tragic hints...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore ! As to the single sonnet proper by Mr. Meredith which I have given in my selection, it is quite unnecessary... | |
 | William Sharp - 1886 - 424 pagina’s
...buried day. Then each applied to each the fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life 1 — In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1887 - 390 pagina’s
...sapphire flashing light, hone. GERALD MASSEY. The sea, just breathing, shone. [From Modern Love.] BONDER midnight ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore. GEORGE MEREDITH. [From Sea Voices.] T)EACE, moaning Sea; what tale have you to tell? What mystic tidings,... | |
 | F. A. H. Eyles - 1889 - 416 pagina’s
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore ! Concerning Mr. Meredith's life a very few words must suffice. All that is known of him is that he... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1890 - 284 pagina’s
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse, To know that faint thin line upon the shore !" Anyone who loves these fifty poems — fifty poems, and... | |
 | George Meredith - 1892 - 128 pagina’s
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore ! THE SAGE ENAMOURED AND THE HONEST LADY THE SAGE ENAMOURED AND THE HONEST LADY ONE fairest of the... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - 1892 - 192 pagina’s
...apprehend Dumb harmony without. " His song may sometimes be heavily burdened, as in the following : — " Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...horse, To throw that faint, thin line upon the shore!" But it generally has a set-off of another, and totally different, character — the frowning cloud... | |
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