 | R. L. Brett - 1997 - 284 pagina’s
...individual can still save himself, for Goethe had found peace in what Arnold calls this 'Iron Age': And he was happy, if to know Causes of things, and...insane distress, And headlong fate, be happiness. For Arnold as a young man this note of Stoic resignation came as a welcome relief from the self-indulgent... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1850 - 786 pagina’s
...turmoil of expiring life : He said, ' The end is everywhere ; Artstill hastruth ; take refuge there!' And he was happy, if to know Causes of things, and...insane distress, And headlong fate, be happiness. And Wordsworth ! Ah. pale Ghosts, rejoice ! For never has such soothing voice Been to yourshadowy world... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 362 pagina’s
...The turmoil of expiring life: He said: The end is everywhere, Art still has truth, take refuge there! And he was happy, if to know Causes of things, and...insane distress, And headlong fate, be happiness. And Wordsworth! Ah, pale ghosts, rejoice! For never has such soothing voice Been to your shadowy world... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1885 - 596 pagina’s
...turmoil of expiring life. He said, The end is everywhere : Art still has truth, take refuge there I And he was happy, if to know Causes of things, and...insane distress And headlong fate, be happiness." We may note here the difference of attitude, the point of view, between the wisest of the moderns and... | |
 | 1920 - 620 pagina’s
...corripuit sese, atque inimica refugit in nemus umbriferum. The reference to Goethe, in Memorial Verses, And he was happy, if to know Causes of things, and...insane distress, And headlong fate, be happiness, is freelv translated from the close of Vergil's Second Georgic, 490 ff.: felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere... | |
 | 1920 - 622 pagina’s
...corripuit sese, atque inimica refugit in nemus umbriferum. The reference to Goethe, in Memorial Verses, And he was happy, if to know Causes of things, and...insane distress, And headlong fate, be happiness, is freely translated from the close of Vergil's Second Georgic, 490 ff.: felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere... | |
 | 1894 - 592 pagina’s
...develop his arms but not his legs. In an imperfectly developed physique there may be a certain * " And he was happy, if to know Causes of things, and...insane distress, And headlong fate, be happiness." This is, of course, taken from Lucretius. f " It all comes right in the Absolute" is the characteristic... | |
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And he was happy, if to know Causes of things, and far below His feet to see the lurid flow Of terror, and insane distress, And headlong fate, be happiness. 
