 They wandered once; clear as the dew on flowers: But they fed not on the advancing hours: Their hearts held cravings for the buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer...  With Friend and Book: In the Study and the Fields - Page 42by John Rogers Rees - 1892 - 84 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Morley - 1903 - 704 pages
...minister to know the eternal tale of the vanity of human wishes, or how men move, Thundering like rampiDg hosts of warrior horse To throw that faint thin line upon the shore.1 Nor are things all one way. If we find Mr. Gladstone writing to the Queen of ' the excellent... | |
 | 1904 - 448 pages
...lines of the final stanza of " Modern Love " : — In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark 1= yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like ramping...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore ! If we may judge by the internal evidence of Mr. Meredith's writings, the sex question is the one... | |
 | John Morley - 1904 - 690 pages
...need not be prime minister to know the eternal tale of the vanity of human wishes, or how men move, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse To throw that faint thin line upon the shore. 1 Nor are things all one way. If we find Mr. Gladstone writing to the Queen of ' the excellent parliamentary... | |
 | George Meredith - 1904 - 196 pages
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life I — In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1905 - 326 pages
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore! " Any one who loves these fifty poems — fifty 127 "Modern Love," etc. poems, and yet one poem —... | |
 | 1905 - 726 pages
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah ! what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horsa, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore. POEMS AND LYRICS. 1*83. • GEORGE MEREDITH. /.—... | |
 | John Morley - 1907 - 966 pages
...need not be prime minister to know the eternal tale of the vanity of human wishes, or how men move, Thundering like ramping hosts of warrior horse To throw that faint thin line upon the shore. 1 Nor are things all one way. If we find Mr. Gladstone writing to the Queen of ' the excellent parliamentary... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1916 - 756 pages
...conception. Even the most patient investigator, the most acute observer, must constantly feel "Oh, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life." If we refer to our Charter, we shall find that the aim of the Koyal Society is promoting Natural Knowledge... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - 1906 - 266 pages
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...horse, To throw that faint thin line upon the shore ! — (L.) I fear that this rough outline and these broken quotations can give little idea of the splendour... | |
 | George Meredith - 1906 - 488 pages
...buried day. Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for...certainties in this our life ! — In tragic hints hei,e see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like ramping hosts... | |
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