 Thin, thin, the pleasant human noises grow, And faint the city gleams ; Rare the lone pastoral huts—marvel not thou ! The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to the stars, and the cold lunar beams ; Alone the sun rises, and alone Spring the...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2731927Full view - About this book
 | Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - Ethics - 1870 - 590 pages
...intense emotions are spoken of as treading unapproachable mountain heights of poetry or philosophy ; " The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to...the stars, and the cold lunar beams : Alone the sun arises, and alone Spring the great streams." It is the every-day love between man and woman that is... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 438 pages
...the moist fragrance of warmer air which steeps the meadows and marshes of sentiment and tradition. '' Thin, thin the pleasant human noises grow, And faint the city gleams ; Rare the lone pastoral huts ; marvel not thou ! The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to the stars, and the cold... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1877 - 292 pages
...lonely pureness, to the all-pure fount (Only by this thou canst), the colour'd dream Of life remount. Thin, thin the pleasant 'human noises grow, And faint...the stars, and the cold lunar beams; Alone the sun arises, and alone Spring the great streams. But, if the wild unfather'd mass no birth In divine seats... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1878 - 396 pages
...lonely pureness to the all-pure fount (Only by this thou canst) the colour'd dream Of life remount! Thin, thin the pleasant human noises grow, And faint...the stars, and the cold lunar beams; Alone the sun arises, and alone Spring the great streams. But, if the wild unfather'd mass no birth In divine seats... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1883 - 818 pages
...places, several English ladies have reached the top. The artist shows the loneliness of greatness : •The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But...; Alone the sun rises, and alone Spring the great streams.—MATTHEW ARNOLD.''' With the knowledge of the indifference, because of the unhelped, ana... | |
 | Joel Benton - 1883 - 148 pages
...even for them the spiritual atmosphere with which it surrounds them is bleak and gray"—and that " The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to...the stars and the cold lunar beams ; Alone the sun arises, and alone Spring the great streams." But the best minds concede the brilliancy of Emerson's... | |
 | Friedrich Schiller - 1886 - 240 pages
...ausgebreitet fcfjroebt.' 183. Hence probably Mr. Arnold's fine verses, ' In Utrumque Paratus,' stanza 3— ' Thin, thin the pleasant human noises grow, And faint the city gleams, Rare the lone pastoral huts ; marvel not thou ! The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to the stars and the cold... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 494 pages
...Vex not thou the poet's mind."—Tennyson. EXERCISE XL. Parse the adverbs in the following :— (a) " The solemn peaks but to the stars are known,— But to the stars, and the cold lunar beams."—M. Arnold, (b) "My life is spann'd already."—Shakespeare. (c) " You always put things so... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 266 pages
...Vex not thou the poet's mind."—Tennyson. EXERCISE XL. Parse the adverbs in the following :— (a) " The solemn peaks but to the stars are known,— But to the stars, and the cold lunar beams."—M. Arnold. (b) " My life is spann'd already."—Shakespeare. (c) "You always put things so... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1887 - 488 pages
...Vex not thou the poet's mind."—Tennyson. EXERCISE XL. Parse the adverbs in the following :— (a) " The solemn peaks but to the stars are known,— But to the stars, and the cold lunar beams."—M. Arnold. (b) "My life is spann'd already."—Shakespeare. (c) "You always put things so... | |
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