 And long the way appears, which seem'd so short To the less practised eye of sanguine youth ; And high the mountain-tops, in cloudy air, The mountain-tops where is the throne of Truth, Tops in life's morning-sun so bright and bare ! Unbreachable the fort...  Macmillan's Magazine - Page 3121866Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Kingsmill - Critics - 1928 - 358 pages
...of truth. Tops in life's morning-sun so bright and bare! Unbreachable the fort Of the long-batter'd world uplifts its wall; And strange and vain the earthly...repose, And night as welcome as a friend would fall." Apart from two lyrics, "Say not the struggle naught availeth," and "As ships becalmed," Clough wrote... | |
 | Frederick Erastus Pierce - English poetry - 1929 - 572 pages
...Truth, Tops in life's morning-sun so bright and barel ,45 Unbreachable the fort Of the long-batter'd world uplifts its wall ; And strange and vain the...repose, And night as welcome as a friend would fall. I5o But hush ! the upland hath a sudden loss Of quiet ! — Look, adown the dusk hillside, A troop... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - 1929 - 392 pages
...he asked; and after a pause, he quoted from the poem— "Unbreachable the fort Of the long-battered world uplifts its wall; And strange and vain the earthly...thy repose, And night as welcome as a friend would fatt!" § 1. THYRSIS came home beaten and crushed, worn out with overwork and worry, his heart black... | |
 | Edward Alexander - English literature - 1973 - 336 pages
...of Truth, Tops in life's morning-sun so bright and bare! Unbreachable the fort Of the long-battered world uplifts its wall; And strange and vain the earthly...repose, And night as welcome as a friend would fall. (131-50) This is the dark side of Arnold's affirmative commitment to prose and criticism in 1864; if... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...once crush'd. less quick to spring again. (1. 137-141) 46 Unbreachable the fort Of the long-batter'd ottoes which you find inside the crackers' - (1. 53-54)...The Disagreeable Man 6 If you give me your attent (1. 146-150) FaBoPP; FiP; Mes; NAEL-2; NOBE; NoP; OBEV; OBNC JOHN ASHBERY (b. 1927) The Instruction... | |
 | Jan Morris - History - 2001 - 316 pages
...grass of the high Hinkseys, veiled in white fog, yellow with cowslips, or echoing with the voices of 'a troop of Oxford hunters going home, as in old days, jovial and talking'. The ideal of the Renaissance man was still alive in those days, and in Oxford it was interpreted as... | |
 | Martin Polley - Social Science - 2004 - 416 pages
...sports — such pictures as Mathew Arnold summons up before our eyes when he sings how " Adown tho dusk hillside A troop of Oxford hunters, going home. As in old days, jovial and talking, vide ! " Nor does their excellence depend upon tho golden hue which memory cants upon anch scenes ;... | |
 | Arthur Finley Scott - English poetry - 1957 - 240 pages
...of Truth, Tops in life's morning-sun so bright and bare ! Unbreachable the fort Of the long-batter'd world uplifts its wall. And strange and vain the earthly...repose, And night as welcome as a friend would fall. (*) In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts his golden fire; The birds... | |
 | Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1927 - 362 pages
...of Truth, Tops in life's morning-sun so bright and bare! Unbreachable the fort Of the long-battered world uplifts its wall; And strange and vain the earthly...repose, And night as welcome as a friend would fall. 2104 But hush! the upland hath a sudden loss Of quiet! — Look, adown the dusk hill-side, A troop... | |
 | Medicine - 1913 - 704 pages
...Truth, Tops in life's morning sun so bright and bare ! Unbreachable the fort " Of the long batter'd world uplifts its wall ; And strange and vain the...repose, And night as welcome as a friend would fall." Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis ! The horizontal rays of the declining sun alter the perspective,... | |
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