| Evelyn Baring Earl of Cromer - 1908 - 624 Seiten
...of flux ; his frame of mind is fitly represented by Matthew Arnold's fine lines : — The East bowed low before the blast In patient deep disdain ; She...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. The mind of the true Eastern is at once lethargic and suspicious ; he does not want to be reformed,... | |
| Cornelis Speelman - 1908 - 610 Seiten
...inmenging betreft, is misschien ook op Perzië toepasselijk hetgeen Matthew Arnold zegt: „The East bowed low before the blast, In patient deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, Then plunged in thought again". schapping met steeds machtiger buren, verwierven zij zich wereldlijk... | |
| Siddha Mohana Mitra - 1908 - 440 Seiten
...gulf of thoughts and aspirations. In the East thought is stronger than armies : • The East bowed low before the blast In patient, deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder past, Then plunged in thought again.' The so-called critics, like Mr. Keir Hardie, MP, make the problem of... | |
| Jonathan Brierley - 1909 - 298 Seiten
...a surface trifler ; his invasions and conquerings as inferior outside performances. The East bowed low before the blast In patient, deep disdain ; She...let the legions thunder past. And plunged in thought ugnin. There has been here, doubtless, a disproportion, an undue neglect of the outside world ; an... | |
| William Thomas Ellis - 1909 - 328 Seiten
...largely disappeared — the spirit which inspired Matthew Arnold's lines, "The East bow'd low beneath the blast, In patient, deep disdain ; She let the...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again." To-day, India, like all the East, is quiveringly alive and alert, and insistent in demands upon the... | |
| George Longridge - 1910 - 322 Seiten
...the past. Matthew Arnold has summed up its spirit with marvellous insight in the well-known verse — "The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again." And that thought was for ever turned in upon itself, unfruitful, unpractical, unprogressive. The really... | |
| Edwin Emerson, Jr. - 1910 - 462 Seiten
...beheld Her 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...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again." Matthew Arnold's as well as Gervinus's prediction, strangely enough, has been fulfilled at the very... | |
| University of Pennsylvania. University Museum - 1914 - 472 Seiten
...dignified attitude of abstraction, one cannot help recalling the lines of Matthew Arnold: "The East bowed low before the blast In patient deep disdain, She...legions thunder past And plunged in thought again." * This, as well as the use of green to indicate the eyelashes and the shaven portion of the scalp,... | |
| John Adam Kern - 1910 - 620 Seiten
...beginning. When Rome flung forth her armies to reduce the world to her will, The East bowed low beneath the blast In patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. So the popes that rose into any kind of greatness — most of them do not seem to have risen above... | |
| Sir Charles Bruce - 1910 - 558 Seiten
...which centuries have ingrained into their nature. As conqueror succeeded conqueror, — "The East bowed low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder past Then plunged in thought again." I will deal first with the operation of diseases arising out of the... | |
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