 | 1888 - Liczba stron: 340
...struggle for self-mastery require it. The finest of these poems, the fifth in number, beginning : Yes I in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between...islands feel the enclasping flow, And then their endless hounds they know. is an expression in verso of the idea that Thackeray has put into humorous prose... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1888 - Liczba stron: 504
...than that which closes one of the poems to Marguerite, the poem which begins with the sad cry — " Yes ! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits...shoreless, watery wild, We mortal millions live alone." — where Mr. Arnold ends his melancholy reverie by confessing that it was God's will which decreed... | |
 | 1888 - Liczba stron: 618
...feeling which he has embalmed in four of his most familiar lines — ' Yes ; in the sea of life enisl'd, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the...shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.' The marble coldness of his assumed impassiveness is often flushed with emotional colour. In these transient... | |
 | Christopher Perren - 1889 - Liczba stron: 442
...mean that the reserve that impassably parts here mind from mind, and soul from soul, shall flee away ? "Yes, in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits...endless bounds they know. " But when the moon their billows lights, And they are swept by balms of spring, And in their glens, on starry nights, The nightingales... | |
 | 1889 - Liczba stron: 532
...spirits have grown. And what heart knows another? Ah ! who knows his own ? — Switzerland. ISOLATION. Yes! in the sea of life enisled. With echoing straits...shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. —¡Ы. ABSENCE. But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill. And we forget because... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1889 - Liczba stron: 536
...spirits have grown. And what heart knows another? Ah ! who knows his own ? — Switzerland. ISOLATION. Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits...shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. —Ibid. ABSENCE. But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to fill. And we forget because... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1890 - Liczba stron: 228
...pathos of this solitude more keenly or given it a more deeply poetic expression than Matthew Arnold: "Yes ! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits...nights, The nightingales divinely sing ; And lovely noles, from shore to shore, Across the sounds and channels pour — " Oh ! then a longing like despair... | |
 | Joseph Henry Gilmore - 1891 - Liczba stron: 192
...so tenderly that it seemed like an act of worship." Other instances* of felicitous diction are : " Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits...shoreless, watery wild, We mortal millions live alone." — Matthew Arnold. "A man who really loves travelling would as soon consent to pack a day of such... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - Liczba stron: 1114
...finds constant expression in literature, nowhere more beautifully than in Matthew Arnold's stanza, — Yes ! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits...enclasping flow, And then their endless bounds they know. Switzerland. Thackeray has put the idea into humorous prose in the following passage from " Pendennis... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1892 - Liczba stron: 776
...himself. In this respect Matthew Arnold's lines are as true as they are poignantly beautiful : — Yes! ia the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between...flow, And then their endless bounds they know. But, as I have said, to wish to overpass these limits is to rebel against the very nature of selfhood, and... | |
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YES! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone. 
