 All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In...  George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: A Contrast - Page 162by Lina Wright Berle - 1917 - 174 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Statesmen - 1875 - 392 pages
...dependents vote, and virtually, the control of the education of our poorer neighbors' children) — 'All things are taken from us and become Portions...there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ? ' slumberous, petulant murmur of the Lotos-eaters expresses fairly enough the spirit of the Ministry... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - English poetry - 1875 - 472 pages
...sweet, stretched out beneath the pine. Hateful is the dark blue sky, Vaulted o'er the dark blue sea. Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All day the wind breathes low with mellower tone. How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream, With... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...Let us alone. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last ? All things are taken from us,...All things have rest and ripen toward the grave, In silence ripen, fall, and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease ' V. How sweet... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...driveth onward fust, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is itth.it willlast? All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful PastLet us alone. What pleasure can we Imve To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing... | |
 | David Thomas - 1877 - 492 pages
...as they fell, and who, with jaded nerves and tired brain and overweighted heart seem to say, — " What pleasure can we have To war with evil ? Is there...All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence : ripen, fall, and cease ; Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease." It was... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 494 pages
...Let us alone. Time diiveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone. What is it that will last ? All things are taken from us,...of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure euii we have To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ? All things... | |
 | Catherine Ann Warfield - American fiction - 1877 - 404 pages
...Let us alone ! Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Let us alone ! What is it that will last ? All things are taken from us,...become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past." TENSYSON— Lotus Eaten. " My native land— Farewell ! "— BYHON. (187) 1 BOOK FOURTH. CHAPTER I.... | |
 | Arthur Rawson Ashwell - 1877 - 92 pages
...best possible excuses for taking all things easily. And then he says to you — What pleasure can you have " To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave ? " * * Tennyson: — The Lotus Eaters; It may not be superfluous here to point out the exquisite allegory... | |
 | charlotte m. yonge - 1877 - 680 pages
...best possible excuses for taking all things easily. And then he says to you — What pleasure can you have ' To war with evil ? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave?' * In other words, he comes to you with all manner of suggestions lunv to make the downward path smooth... | |
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