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" The East bowed low before the blast In patient, deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. "
Littell's Living Age - Page 218
1870
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1912 - 666 pages
...The Light of Asia,' and are not by Matthew Arnold. ABG • The lines run thus : — The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. They are part of a well-known passage in Matthew Arnold's Obermann Once...
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New Poems

Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 226 pages
...quicker passed The impracticable hours. " The brooding East with awe beheld Her impious younger world ; The Roman tempest swelled and swelled, And on her...patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. "' Poor world,' she cried,' so deep accurst! That runn'st from pole to...
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The Eagle: A Magazine, Volumes 5-6

1867 - 832 pages
...the East, with its mighty internal forces of thought and enthusiasm, re-conquered it. "The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain. She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. " So well she mused, a morning broke Across her spiril grey. A conquering,...
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Narrative and elegiac poems

Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...impious younger world. The Roman tempest swell'd and swell'd, And on her head was hurl'd. The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. So well she mused, a morning broke Across her spirit grey. A conquering,...
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The Living Age, Volume 105

1870 - 844 pages
...times, so is it now in the English, — " The brooding East with awe beheld Her impious younger woi>id, The Roman tempest swelled and swelled And on her head...audience to these restless, pushing strangers, and hears from them all sorts of bizarre arguments. Some of them (missionaries of the go-a-head type) tell...
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Journal of the United Service Institution of India, Volume 32

United Service Institution of India - India - 1903 - 876 pages
...of Swat.¿ It will thus be seen that India has been invaded on nnmetoUs 1.—ALEXANDER'S INVASION. N The East bowed low before the blast In patient deep disdain; She let the legions thunder put, And plunged in thought again.' In the spring of the year 334 BC, Alexander of ¿(ac¿d'¿ b' on...
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Hinduism and Its Relations to Christianity

John Robson - Christianity and other religions - 1874 - 358 pages
...conquest and violence were raging about it, Hinduism was steadily developing itself. ' The East bow'd low before the blast, In patient deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again." The only difference we can now trace is that the theory and system of...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 238

Early English newspapers - 1875 - 804 pages
...impious younger world. The Roman tempest swell'd and swellM, And on her head was hurl'd. The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder past. And plunged in thought again. So well she mused, a morning broke Across her spirit grey : A conquering,...
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Mr. Matthew Arnold as Critic and Poet: (Read Before the Liverpool ...

James Willcox Alsop - 1879 - 40 pages
...quicker passed The impracticable hours. " The brooding East with awe beheld Her impious younger world. The Roman tempest swelled and swelled, And on her...patient, deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder past. And plunged in thought again. " So well she mused, a morning broke Across her spirit grey. A conquering,...
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Poems

Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1879 - 392 pages
...younger world. The Roman tempest swell'd and swell'd, And on her head was hurl'd. ' The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. ' So well she mused, a morning broke Across her spirit grey. A conquering,...
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