 ... his steadfast footsteps in the sea, Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place, Spares but the cloudy border of his base To the foil'd searching of mortality ; And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd,...  The Arnoldian - Page 281979Full view - About this book
 | 1849 - 778 pages
...sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst walk on earth unguess'd at. Better so ! All pains the immortal spirit must...that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. But the gem of the book is 'The it reminds us in subject ^of poor Forsaken... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1853 - 298 pages
...sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure Didst walk on Earth unguess'd at. Better so ! All pains the immortal spirit must...that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. m. WRITTEN IN EMERSON'S ESSAYS. " 0 MONSTROUS, dead, unprofitable world,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 pages
...sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honor'd, self-secure Didst walk on Earth unguess'd at. Better so ! All pains the immortal spirit must...that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. III. WRITTEN IN EMERSON'S ESSAYS. " O MONSTRors, dead, unprofitable... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1875 - 804 pages
...sunbeams know, Self-school'd, sclf-.scann'd, self-hon^ur'd, self-secure, Didst walk on earth unguess'd at. — Better so ! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Kind their sole voice in that victorious brow. On the whole, there... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 292 pages
...sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst stand on earth unguess'd at. — Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. Written in Emerson's... | |
 | 1877 - 750 pages
...sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst walk on earth unguess'd at. Better so ! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow." The general meaning... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1878 - 462 pages
...sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst walk on earth unguess'd at, — Better so ! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. MATTHEW ARNOLD.... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 pages
...sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst walk on earth unguess'd at. — Better so ! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. MATTHEW ARNOLD.... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - England - 1880 - 392 pages
...thou who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure, Didst walk on earth unguessed at. Better so ! All...that impairs, all griefs that bow, Find their sole voice in that victorious brow." I had wholly forgotten this sonnet. But it expresses with wonderful... | |
 | William Winter - England - 1880 - 220 pages
...Andthou^ -who didst the stars and sunbeams know^ Self-schooled, self-scanned, self -honoured, self-secure^ Didst walk on earth unguessed at. Better so! All pains...endure^ All weakness that impairs, all griefs that bowt Find their sole voice in that victorious brow. — MATTHEW ARNOLD. XIII. THE HOME OF SHAKESPEARE.... | |
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