...which bore this prose appeal from Arnould was that which also carried the printed verse of Browning :Contrive, contrive To rouse us, Waring! Who's alive?...like the games Of children. Turn our sport to earnest 396 Robert Browning and Alfred Domett. With a visage of the sternest! Bring the real times back, confessed...

...asks : — " Who 's alive ? Our men scarce seem in earnest now : Distinguished names ! — but 't is, somehow, As if they played at being names Still more...our sport to earnest With a visage of the sternest I Bring the real times back, confessed Still better than our very best ! " — Vol. ii. p. 292. In...

...therein. The other pieces are mostly rather reminiscent, resembling in this so much of modern verse: As if they played at being names Still more distinguished: like the games Of children, as Browning writes. "Daughters of Joy" smacks of Matthew Arnold. "In (summer time when Mary bathes"...

...therein. The other pieces are mostly rather reminiscent, resembling in this so much of modern verse: As if they played at being names Still more distinguished: like the games Of children, as Browning writes. "Daughters of Joy" smacks of Matthew Arnold. "ln summer time when Mary bathes"...

...read " friends," adapting the passage to express our ever-increasing regard for the books he writes. " Contrive, contrive To rouse us, Waring ! Who's alive...the games Of children. Turn our sport to earnest." ART. V. — The History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent to the...

...want of this power that stamps the sensuous school with inferiority. "Who's alive? Our men seem scarce in earnest now : Distinguished names ! but 'tis, somehow,...Still more distinguished, like the games Of children." 1 It is in fact a kind of affectation. They are acting a part, and the whole long train of minor poets...

...with inferiority. 446 447 "Who's alive? OuT men seem scarce in earnest now ; Distinguished names I but 'tis, somehow, As if they played at being names, Still more distinguished, hke the games Of children." i It is in fact a kind of affectation. They are acting a part, and the...

...into life ! Some one shall somehow run a muck With this old world, for want of strife Sound asleep. Contrive, contrive To rouse us, Waring ! Who's alive ? Our men scarce seem iu earnest now. Distinguished names ! — but 'tis, somehow, As if they played at being names Still...

...been even in this society a feeling that the times were out of joint. Who's alive? Our men seem scarce in earnest now Distinguished names, but tis somehow As if they played at being names Still more distinguished.110 (p. 86.) The leading idea111 of the poem is that a genius, such as Waring, can not...

...Emperors of Rome in less than a century ! Mere names do you say ? Distinguished names ! — but 'twas somehow, As if they played at being names Still more distinguished, like the games Of children. Ay, that was just the worst of it. There was no saying any day who was or who might be king over us....