| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1900 - 874 pages
...: 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... | |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne - Art - 1875 - 438 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| Great Britain - 1877 - 938 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
... 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 - 372 pages
...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 - English language - 1884 - 346 pages
...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 - Dreams - 1885 - 308 pages
...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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