And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labour fall From their tired hands, and rest Never yet comes more near, Gloom settles slowly down over their breast ; And while they try to... The Christian socialist - Sayfa 881883Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| 1911 - 694 sayfa
...follows, apparent; possibly Matthew Arnold's lines apply to him as truly as to the rest of humanity : For most men in a brazen prison live. Where in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, 'hey languidly Their lives to some unmeaning task-work give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall.... | |
| Edward Alexander - 1973 - 336 sayfa
...world's sway" (32-33). The majority, he knows, succumb to the temptations of restful ease and routine: For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall. (37-41) A minority, however, reject the prison and take the more daring alternative of steering their... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 1154 sayfa
...stature. Delicacy may be acquired. Good taste is worth striving after ; it adds to the joy of the world. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where in the...unmeaning task-work give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison Wall ; And as year after year Fresh products of their barren labour fall From their tired hands,... | |
| Robert L. Paquette, Lou Ferleger - 2000 - 256 sayfa
...burdensome work." Matthew Arnold captures this sense of burden well in his 1852 poem "A Summer Night": For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot eye, With head bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of... | |
| 1911 - 802 sayfa
...must meet [688] 689 the approval of every city slave who rebels against confinement and servitude: For most men in a brazen prison live Where in the...unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison wall. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labour fall From their hands,... | |
| Edwin Markham - 1927 - 362 sayfa
...sway? And I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield and be Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison wall. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labor fall From their tired hands,... | |
| 1918 - 456 sayfa
....description of these two types in his poem entitled " A Summer Night." "For most men in a brazen prison live, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall. And as,...their tired hands, and rest Never yet comes more near, Death in their prison reaches them, Unfreed, having seen nothing, still unblest. > And the rest, a... | |
| 1908 - 606 sayfa
...all religions. Her work will never be done until those words of Matthew Arnold are no longer true : "For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...languidly Their lives to some unmeaning task-work give." I hope I have made it clear that this brotherhood of ours has received a glorious inheritance. Let... | |
| 1911 - 646 sayfa
...UNIVERSITY. LELAND 31 ANrORD ' For most men in a brazen prison lire. Where in the sun's not eye, With beads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to...give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall. For my part, when I have seen my duty as a schoolmaster most clearly it has not been in school ; it... | |
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