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" Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes — That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And, while... "
Essays and Studies - Page 139
by Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1875 - 380 pages
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...mind the Barbarians. 501 Dover Beach Ah, love, let us be true To one another. 502 Empedocks on Etna noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that...I was wrong. 600 'The Unknown Citizen' Our resear 503 Essays in Criticism [Oxfordl whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Ages......
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Abundant Gifts

Diane Eble - Religion - 2004 - 324 pages
...Week 19 • Wednesday Ordinary Gifts CJL- • J.\ if J.' 1C? onnectmg with v^reation and JC/acn Otlier Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to...spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done? — Matthew Arnold Like two schoolgirls, my neighbor Daphanie and I head out for our big adventure:...
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To our great friendship

58 pages
...an alliance without which man would have been left disarmed in life. MILXN KUND6KX f *•_ . ^ It is so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have...spring, To have loved, to have thought, To have done, to have Advanced true friends. MXTTHEW APJMOLD Love is a sudden blaze, which soon decays; Friendship...
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The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes

Reference - 2004 - 516 pages
...commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do. — Charles Dudley Warner It is so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done. — Matthew Arnold One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine...
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Exiled Royalties : Melville and the Life We Imagine: Melville and the Life ...

Department of English Washington University Robert Milder Professor, St Louis - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 312 pages
...("Empedocles" I, 2: 391). "Is it so small a thing," Empedocles asks, To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done .... That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful future date, And, while we dream of this, Lose all our...
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The Journal of Education, Volume 29; Volume 39

Education - 1907 - 894 pages
...extract can give but a faint idea of the process ; but we cannot forbear quoting the rendering of " Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To...spring. To have loved, to have thought, to have done?" " Usque adeo nihil est quod puro lumine solis Viximu' laetantes ? quod ver sensus hilaravit ? Multas...
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The Book of Poetry: Collected from the Whole Field of British and ..., Volume 7

Edwin Markham - American poetry - 1927 - 362 pages
...judgment all embroiled By sadness and self-will, Shall we judge what for man is not true bliss or is? Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To...spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes — ; That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful...
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Poet Lore, Volume 32

Drama - 1921 - 664 pages
...should I say that life need yield but moderate bliss? * * * * Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring To have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes — That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful...
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A Hundred Years of English Poetry

200 pages
...elsewhere ; Make us, not fly to dreams, but moderate desire. Is it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done; To have advanced true friends, and beat down baffling foes ; That we must feign a bliss Of doubtful...
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The Fortnightly, Volume 21; Volume 27

1877 - 936 pages
...existence in itself, without thought of a possible future. " Is it a little thing To have enjoyed tho sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done ; To have helped friends and beat down baffling foes ?" All this Titian enjoyed for a full century,...
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