 For most men in a brazen prison live, Where in the sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison- wall.  Early Essays and Lectures - Stran 154avtor: Patrick Augustine Sheehan - 1906 - 354 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1854 - 270 strani
...apprehended, do exhibit one or the other of those extremes which the poet has so well described : " For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly Their minds- to some unmeaning task-work give, Dreaming of naught beyond their prison wall ; And so, year... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 350 strani
...And I, I know not if to pray Still to bo what I am, or yield, and be Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where in the...as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labor fall From their tired hands, and rest Never yet comes more near, Gloom settles slowly down over... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1856 - 348 strani
...And I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield, and be Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where in the...as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labor fall From their tired hands, and rest Never yet comes more near, Gloom settles slowly down over... | |
 | Arthur Middleton - 1868 - 236 strani
...Besides," he continued, " you do not give the context; let me give you the other side of the picture— ' For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...sun's hot eye, With heads bent o'er their toil they ceaselessly Their mind to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison walls."... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1878 - 396 strani
...And I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield, and be Like all the other men I see. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labour fall From their tired hands,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 342 strani
...I, I know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield, and be Like all the other men I see. • For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...eye, With heads bent o'er their toil, they languidly N 2 Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall. And as,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 strani
...hent o'er their toil, (hoy languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of naught beyond their prison wall. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren' labor fall From their tired hands and rest Never yet comer* more near, Gloom settles slowly down over... | |
 | 1883 - 410 strani
...extension of the area of State interference, this branch of legislation will steadily increase. — Times. For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of nought beyond their prison-wall. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labour fall From their tired hands,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 strani
...and be as others, — benumbed by the world's sway, or possessed by the fiery glow of passion? — 'For most men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the...lives to some unmeaning taskwork give, Dreaming of naught beyond their prison wall. And as, year after year, Fresh products of their barren labor fall... | |
 | 1883 - 520 strani
...know not if to pray Still to be what I am, or yield, and be Like all the other men I see. For must men in a brazen prison live, Where, in the sun's hot...languidly Their lives to some unmeaning taskwork give. ******* And the rest, a few. Escape their prison and depart On the wide ocean of life anew. There the... | |
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