 What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the earth ? — Most men eddy about Here and there — eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing...  Ancient Religion and Modern Thought - Page 252by William Samuel Lilly - 1884 - 371 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1883 - 934 lehte
...narratives ; I will suppose, for the present, that no one now accepts them literally as history : nee pueri credunt. Let us take it, if you like, that the...and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled in the duet, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing, and then they die — Perish ! and no one asks Who or what... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1868 - 264 lehte
...'Twixt vice and virtue; reviv'st, Succourest; — this was thy work, This was thy life upon earth. What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the...and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing; and then they die — Perish ! and no one... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1878 - 396 lehte
...dim 'Twixt vice and virtue; reviv'st, Succourest!—this was thy work, This was thy life upon earth. What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the earth ? — Most men eddy about Here and there—eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, art hurl'd... | |
 | 1878 - 636 lehte
...] Our mode of life consists in wasting it 1 '« What is the course of life Of mortal men upon this earth ? Most men eddy about Here and there— eat...drink, Chatter, and love, and hate, Gather and squander . . . Striving blindly, achieving Nothing ; and then they die—" and no one stays to enquire anything... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1879 - 392 lehte
...'Twixt vice and virtue; reviv'st, Succourestl — this was thy work, This was thy life upon earth. What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the...love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, art hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing ; and then they die — Perish — and... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1880 - 248 lehte
...dim 'Twixt vice and virtue; reviv'st, Succorest! — this was thy work, This was thy life upon earth. What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the...and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing ; and then they die — Perish — and no one... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1884 - 396 lehte
...'Twixt vice and virtue ; reviv'st, Succourest ! — this was thy work, This was thy life upon earth. What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the...love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, art hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing ; and then they die — Perish — and... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 396 lehte
...'Twixt vice and virtue ; reviv'st, Succourest! — this was thy work, This was thy life upon earth. What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the earth? — Most men edily about Here and there — eat and drink, Chatter and love and hate, Gather and squander, are raised... | |
 | 1883 - 948 lehte
...lay before them — how is this to be reconciled with Infinite Love ? Consider human existcncc — the life even of the healthiest of us, what Pope called...there — eat and drink, Chatter, and love, and hate, . .4 Gatber and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurled ia the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 352 lehte
...'Twixt vice and virtue ; reviv'st, Succourest ! — this was thy work, This was thy life upon earth. What is the course of the life Of mortal men on the...and hate, Gather and squander, are raised Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust, Striving blindly, achieving Nothing ; and then they die — Perish — and no one... | |
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