 Yes, we arraign her! but she, The weary Titan, with deaf Ears, and labour-dimm'd eyes, Regarding neither to right Nor left, goes passively by, Staggering on to her goal; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Wellnigh not to be borne, Of the...  Life of the Right Honourable William Edward Forster - Page 162by Thomas Wemyss Reid - 1888Full view - About this book
 | 1916 - 880 pages
...neither to right Nor left, goes passively by, Staggering on to her goal; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Well-nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate. The "Titan" may have been weary, the "orb of her fate" too vast, but she reached her goal because of... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...right Nor left, goes passively by, Staggering on to her goal; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantcán, the load, Well-nigh not to be borne, . Of the too vast orb of her fate. " Bat was it thou — I think Surely it was — that bard Unnamed, who, Goethe said, ¡lad every other... | |
 | Literature - 1889 - 1060 pages
...Titan, with deaf Ears, and labor-dimmed eyes, Staggering on to her goal, Bearing, on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load Well-nigh not to be borne Of the too vast orb of her fate. It is not the poet's mind alone which is profoundly moved by this fact of Great Britain's vast expansion... | |
 | 1866 - 768 pages
...passively by, Staggering on to her goal; • Ben ring, on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load. Wellnigli not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate. DREAMS OF THE TWO EMPERORS. A LEAF FROM PUNCH. "Он !" cried Mrs. Judy. " I "ve dreamt," said Mr.... | |
 | 1867 - 832 pages
...neither to right Nor left, goes passively by, Staggering on to her goal ; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Wellnigh not to be borne, • Of the too vast orb of her fate. In the poem called "Oberman once more" we have Roman civilization contrasted with the civilization... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 286 pages
...neither to right Nor left, goes passively by, Staggering on to her goal; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Wellnigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate. But was it thou—I think Surely it was—that bard Unnamed, who, Goethe said, Had every other gift,... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - Germanic peoples - 1869 - 154 pages
...of England: Staggering on to her goal; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantean, the load, Well nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate. The last line comes very near to the notion of 'urgentibus fatis,' in which the ideas of a heavy pressure... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - Germanic peoples - 1869 - 320 pages
...England : Staggering on to her goal; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlanteän, the load, Well nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate. The last line comes very near to the notion of 'urgentibus fatis,' in which the ideas of a heavy pressure... | |
 | 1869 - 898 pages
...passively by, Staggering on to her goal ; Bearing on shoulders immense, Atlantian, the load, Well nigh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate. And if in our daily handiwork there is no joy, in our higher faith there is no eager aspiration. Life,... | |
 | American literature - 1874 - 848 pages
...passively by, Staggering on to her goal. Bearing ou shoulders immense, Atlnnlean, the load. Wellnlgh not to be borne, Of the too vast orb of her fate." That is more finely chiseled and more majestic, doubtless, than the passage we are about to quote,... | |
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