| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 pagina’s
...: 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... | |
| Edward Everett Hale - 1872 - 796 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...repine because 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...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 pagina’s
...repine because 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...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
| 1885 - 478 pagina’s
...think, might make us fear A like event elsewhere — Make us not fly to dreams, but moderate desire. " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To...advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes . " I say : Fear not ! Life still Leaves human effort scope, But, since life teems with ill, Nurse... | |
| Emily Lawless (hon.) - 1882 - 298 pagina’s
... BODLEIAN LIBRARY OXFORD BODLEIAN LIBRARY OXFORD A CHELSEA HOUSEHOLDER. *' Is it a little thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done? ' IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: M. ARNOLD. SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS,... | |
| Emily Lawless (hon.) - 1882 - 360 pagina’s
...600073099Y BODLEIAN LIBRARY OXFORD BODLEIAN LIBRARY OXFORD A CHELSEA HOUSEHOLDER. " Is it a little thins To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ?" M. ARNOLD. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS,... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1884 - 346 pagina’s
...it' is without grammatical connection in such forms as: It cannot be that thou art gone.—Coleridge. Is it so small a thing, To have enjoyed the sun: To...spring; To have loved, to have thought, to have done? —Matthew Arnold. So far from being a superfluous element, 'it' is here an essential — the grammatical... | |
| Edward Clodd - 1885 - 306 pagina’s
...bare the sources of the unrest of his time, has led us to the secret of its peace, he will ask — " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To...true friends, and beat down baffling foes — That we should feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And while we dream on this, Lose all our present state,... | |
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