 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 oldal
...And I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield, and be Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where in the...unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labour fall From their tired hands,... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess, Harold Crawford Stearns - 1923 - 226 oldal
...vAnd I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield, and be Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...lives to some unmeaning task-work give, Dreaming of naught beyond their prison-wall. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labor fall... | |
 | George Roy Elliott, Norman Foerster - 1923 - 864 oldal
...And I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield and be 35 Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, 40 Dreaming of nought beyond their prison wall. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1924 - 774 oldal
...And I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield, and be 35 Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where in the...languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, 40 Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wal1. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1928 - 236 oldal
...T.,.tJ£i!.ow.jiot if t" prgy Stjjftn hp what T ami or yifJdj-and be 35 Like all the _Qthfr mpr| T SP.P. j£) For most men in a brazen prison live, Where in the sun's hot eye, WitlTheads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their hvesT6~some unmeaning taskwork give, 40 Dreaming"of... | |
 | 1926 - 780 oldal
...— And I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield and be Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labor fall From their tired hands,... | |
 | 1911 - 696 oldal
...follows, apparent; possibly Matthew Arnold's lines apply to him as truly as to the rest of humanity : For most men in a brazen prison live. Where in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, 'hey languidly Their lives to some unmeaning task-work give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.... | |
 | Edward Alexander - 1973 - 336 oldal
...world's sway" (32-33). The majority, he knows, succumb to the temptations of restful ease and routine: For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall. (37-41) A minority, however, reject the prison and take the more daring alternative of... | |
 | Robert L. Paquette, Lou Ferleger - 2000 - 256 oldal
...burdensome work." Matthew Arnold captures this sense of burden well in his 1852 poem "A Summer Night": For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With head bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 362 oldal
...sway? And I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield and be Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labor fall From their tired hands, and rest Never yet conies more near, Gloom settles slowly down over... | |
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For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall. 
