 How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking in vain, in all my store, One feeling based on truth; Amid the maze of petty life A clue whereby to move, A spot whereon in toil and strife To dare to rest and love. So constant as my heart...  Blackwood's Magazine - 576. oldal1862Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 oldal
...strong current flowing. Right onward to the Eternal Shore? IS.',". 1849. BLANK MISGIVINGS How often sit de us it must. T were well for others as for me T were dry ns summer dust. Excitements come, and act and... | |
 | 1905 - 736 oldal
...perhaps, hardly procurable. Concerning the very characteristic lines in which he represents himself as " Seeking in vain in all my store, One feeling based on truth," Mr. RH Hutton has the penetratingly truthful remark that Clough "wanted some guarantee for simplicity... | |
 | 1911 - 460 oldal
...so das charakteristisch einsetzende fünfte Gedicht dieses Zyklus : "How often sit I, poring o' er My strange distorted youth, Seeking in vain, in all my store, One feeling based on truth." In Hinsicht auf "The Bothie" sind drei Gedichte1) an eine schottische "highland lassie" von Interesse,... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1913 - 602 oldal
...Flows wafting-in friendships and better, — I Unseeing, listless, pace along the shore. How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking...would be, So fickle as it must, 'Twere well for others as for me 'Twere dry as summer dust. Excitements come, and act and speech Flow freely forth ; — but... | |
 | James Insley Osborne - 1919 - 210 oldal
...regretted, but the principal source of pain is the conviction of having lived a lie : " How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth. Seeking...vain, in all my store, One feeling based on truth." A sickening lack of correspondence is discovered between the circumstances of the outer and those of... | |
 | Casey Albert Wood - 1920 - 382 oldal
...wise who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home ! WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 25 So constant as my heart would be, So fickle as it must, 'Twere well for others as for me 'Twere dry as summer dust. Excitements come, and act and speech Flow freely forth ; — but... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 oldal
...(From "Blank Misgivings of a Creature moving about in Worlds not realized": number v, How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking...feeling based on truth; Amid the maze of petty life, 5 A clue whereby to move, A spot whereon in toil and strife To dare to rest and love. So constant as... | |
 | Clarence Edward Andrews, Milton Oswin Percival - 1924 - 624 oldal
...to the Eternal Shore? FROM BLANK MISGIVINGS [Composed 1841. — Published 1849.] NO. V How OFTEN sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking...would be, So fickle as it must, 'Twere well for others as for me 'Twere dry as summer dust. Excitements come, and act and speech Flow freely forth; — but... | |
 | 1862 - 884 oldal
...life, that a mind quite unique in simplicity' and truthfulness representa itself in his poems as ^ ' Seeking in vain, in all my store, One feeling based on truth. 1 " Indeed, he wanted to reach some guaranty for simplicity deeper than simplicity itself. We remember... | |
 | Stefanie Markovits - 2006 - 268 oldal
...wanderings of a Cain or a Don Juan to the purposeful motion of a modern Ulysses or Aeneas: How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking...spot whereon in toil and strife To dare to rest and love.50 Arnold turned to the same phrase in Culture and Anarchy: "our habitual causes of action seem... | |
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