 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...  Littell's Living Age - Page 3531868Full view - About this book
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Literary Criticism - 1882 - 402 pages
...of the woods Emerson then surprised, which I saw not. Many have learned, with George Meredith — " What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life." But it is the characteristic of our time that the certainties are hotter after mortals than these are... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Transcendentalism (New England) - 1883 - 344 pages
...of the woods Emerson then surprised, which I saw not. Many have learned, with George Meredith— " What a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life." But it is the characteristic of our time that the certainties are hotter after mortals than these are... | |
 | William Sharp - English poetry - 1886 - 424 pages
...day. Then each applied to each the 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 1 — In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering... | |
 | F. A. H. Eyles - English poetry - 1889 - 416 pages
...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 here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - 1890 - 278 pages
...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 here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - American literature - 1892 - 192 pages
...Dumb harmony without. " His song may sometimes be heavily burdened, as in the following : — " Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life ! In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering like... | |
 | 1895 - 676 pages
...and incomplete ? The individual's craving for completion is not satisfied in the way he wishes. "Ah, what a dusty answer gets the Soul When hot for certainties in this our life — In tragic hints here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force Thundering like... | |
 | George Meredith - 1898 - 254 pages
...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 here see what evermore Moves dark as yonder midnight ocean's force, Thundering... | |
 | Richard Le Gallienne - English literature - 1896 - 308 pages
...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 ! ' Apparently, divergences in nature (he was a dreamer and 'plotted to be worthy of the world,' she... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 498 pages
...married human nature. The poet sums up their pitifulness in two lines of the closing sonnet: — "Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life!" The series is rich in poetry. George Meredith might be remembered if he had written nothing else but... | |
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