 | 1897 - 986 pages
...of the most emphatic lessons of the last thirty years:— "Old things need not be therefore true;" 0 brother men, nor yet the new; Ah, still awhile the...earnings of their pain. Ah, yet consider it again. And In spite of the frequent Impatience of the day, the patience, we think, predominates over the impatience,... | |
 | English fiction - 790 pages
...the other side the hills, sunny and bright.' And in one of his poems on this subject he tells us ' Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men,...the old thought retain, And yet consider it again ! ***** Alas I the great world goes its way, And takes its truth from each new day ; They do not quit,... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 pages
...characteristic pieces : " Old things need not be therefore true, 0 brother men, nor yet the new ; Ah 1 still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again ! The souls of now two thousand years Bave laid up here their toils and fears, And all the earnings of their pain, — Ah, yet consider it... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 518 pages
...see, Some true result will yet appear Of what we are, together, here. AH! YET CONSIDER IT AGAIN! ' OLD things need not be therefore true,' O brother...earnings of their pain, — Ah, yet consider it again ! We ! what do we see ? each a space Of some few yards before his face ; Does that the whole wide plan... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - 1869 - 520 pages
...see, Some true result will yet appear Of what we are, together, here. A If. YF.T CO.\'SWER IT AGAIN! ' OLD things need not be therefore true,' O brother...earnings of their pain,— Ah, yet consider it again ! We ! what do we see 1 each a space Of some few yards before his face ; Does that the whole wide plan... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - Sermons, English - 1870 - 360 pages
...before all things .reflect that old and new have no weight in the questions of eternal life. ' " ' Old things need not be therefore true,' O brother men, nor yet the new." No! there is no value in. things .because they are either new or old. There have been truth and falsehood... | |
 | England - 1872 - 752 pages
...is quite as ready to pull down as to build up ; probably it is more ready, for the task is easier. " Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men,...the old thought retain, And yet consider it again." But this is exactly what the human mind will not do. It will act somehow at once. It will not " consider... | |
 | Arthur Hugh Clough - English poetry - 1874 - 416 pages
...see, Some true result will yet appear Of what we are, together, here. AH! YET CONSIDER IT AGAIN. ' OLD things need not be therefore true,' O brother...again ! The souls of now two thousand years, Have laid _up here their toils and fears, And all the earnings of their pain, — Ah, yet consider it again !... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1878 - 578 pages
...may have passed by some essential truth, and therefore he adjures his brother-men to pause : — ' The souls of now two thousand years Have laid up here...earnings of their pain — Ah, yet consider it again.' But though dough's religious attitude is, at first sight, one of intellectual suspense, yet he does... | |
 | 1877 - 900 pages
...He quotes from Clough what really might have been taken as the motto of his political creed : — " Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new ; Ah, still awhile th' old thought retain, And yet consider it again." And in all this, if it were advanced rather as... | |
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OLD things need not be therefore true,' O brother men, nor yet the new ; Ah ! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again ! The souls of now two thousand years, Have laid up here their toils and fears, And all the earnings of their... 
