 Still, it is hard for a pure and thoughtful man to live in a state of rapture at the spectacle afforded to him by his fellow -creatures; above all it is hard, when such a man is placed as Marcus Aurelius was placed, and has had the meanness and perversity...  Essays in Criticism - Page 375by Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 379 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - 1864 - 345 pages
...frankincense on the same altar : one falls before, another falls after ; but it makes no difference. 16. Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason. 17. Do not act as if thou wert going... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1865 - 334 pages
...live in a state of rapture at the spectacle afforded to him by his fellow-creatures ; above all is it hard, when such a man is placed as Marcus Aurelius...true strain of thought as to his relations with his fellow-men is rather the following. He has been enumerating the higher consolations which may support... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1865 - 332 pages
...live in a state of rapture at the spectacle afforded to him by his fellow-creatures; above all is it hard, when such a man is placed as Marcus Aurelius...fellow-creatures thrust, in no common measure, upon his notice,—has had, time after time, to experience how " within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those... | |
 | Matthew Arnold (Dichter, England) - Criticism - 1869 - 438 pages
...thoughtful man to live in a state of rapture at the spectacle afforded to him by his fellow-creatures ; above all it is hard, when such a man is placed as...true strain of thought as to his relations with his fellow-men is rather the following. He has been enumerating the higher consolations which may support... | |
 | emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - 1869 - 230 pages
...frankincense on the same altar : one falls before, another falls after; but it makes no difference. 16. Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason. years. Death hangs over thee. While... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1875 - 468 pages
...thoughtful man to live in a state of rapture at the spectacle afforded to him by his fellow-creatures; above all it is hard, when such a man is placed as...true strain of thought as to his relations with his fellow-men is rather the following. He has been enumerating the higher consolations which may support... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1883 - 404 pages
...countless solemnities, and the infinitely in storms and calms, and the differied x.] MARCUS AURELIUS. 375 how many will soon forget it, and how they who perhaps...true strain of thought as to his relations with his fellow-men is rather the following. He has been enumerating the higher consolations which may support... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1887 - 268 pages
...thoughtful man to live in a state of rapture at the spectacle afforded to him by his fellow-creatures; above all it is hard, when such a man is placed as...placed, and has had the meanness and perversity of his fellow- ,j creatures thrust, in no common measure, upon his no- j tice, — has had, time after time,... | |
 | Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - Ethics - 1889 - 318 pages
...frankincense on the same altar : one falls before, another falls after ; but it makes no difference. 1 6. Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason. 17. Do not act as if thou wert going... | |
 | Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) - 1894 - 320 pages
...frankincense on the same altar : one falls before, another falls after ; but it makes no difference. 1 6. Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason. 17. Do not act as if thou wert going... | |
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