| England - 1862 - 818 pages
...something of an indecision which he himself confesses and laments in some of his earlier verses. " How often sat I poring o'er My strange distorted youth,...vain, in all my store, One feeling based on truth ; Amid the maze of petty life A clue whereby to move, A spot whereon in toil and strife To dare to... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge - English poetry - 1849 - 178 pages
...Flows wafting-in friendships and bettor,— I Unseeing, listless, pace along the shore. How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth. Seeking...vain, in all my store. One feeling based on truth ; Amid the maze of petty life A clue whereby to move, A spot whereon in toil and strife To dare to... | |
| Conduct of life - 1864 - 350 pages
...to be of the same mind as to what are mistakes. As the epicure lays the account of his indigestion to the few drops of cream in his after-dinner cup...of this class, who are driven by their calling to utilise the actions and proceedings generally of so much of mankind as come in their way, may be said... | |
| American periodicals - 1864 - 744 pages
...Mr. dough's: — " How often sat I poring o'«r My strange, distorted youth, Seeking in vain in »11 my store One feeling based on truth ; " for a certain...of so much of mankind as come in their way, may be •aid to constitute themselves the authority on all questions of cause and effect, and to pronounce... | |
| Anne Mozley - Conduct of life - 1865 - 374 pages
...to be of the same mind as to what are mistakes. As the epicure lays the account of his indigestion to the few drops of cream in his after-dinner cup...truth " ; for a certain intellectual activity prompts tb a perpetual review and suspicion of the past. Authors, the picked men of this class, who are driven... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 518 pages
...wafting-in friendships and better, — I Unseeing, listless, pace along the shore. v How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking...vain, in all my store, One feeling based on truth ; Amid the maze of petty life A clue whereby to move, A spot whereon in toil and strife To dare to... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 542 pages
...wafting-in friendships and better, — I Unseeing, listless, pace along the shore. v How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking in vain, in all my store, One feelins; based on truth ; Amid the maze of petty life A clue whereby to move, A spot whereon in toil... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough - English poetry - 1874 - 416 pages
...wafting-in friendships and better, — I Unseeing, listless, pace along the shore. v How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking...vain, in all my store, One feeling based on truth ; Amid the maze of petty life A clue whereby to move, A spot whereon in toil and strife To dare to... | |
| Arthur Hugh Clough - 1879 - 396 pages
...wafting-in friendships and better, — I Unseeing, listless, pace along the shore. v How often sit I, poring o'er My strange distorted youth, Seeking...vain, in all my store, One feeling based on truth ; Amid the maze of petty life A clue whereby to move, A spot whereon in toil and strife To dare to... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - Literature - 1880 - 434 pages
...of life, that a mind quite unique in simplicity and truthfulness represents itself in his poems as " Seeking in vain, in all my store, One feeling based on truth." Indeed, he wanted to reach some guarantee for simplicity deeper than simplicity itself. I remember... | |
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