 | Phillips Brooks - 1838 - Počet stránok 394
...that most representative poet of our time, whom I have twice quoted already: — " Achilles ponders iu his tent, The kings of modern thought are dumb. Silent they are, though not content, And wait to see the future come. Silent, wliile years engrave the brow, Silent, the best are silent... | |
 | 1867 - Počet stránok 854
...preparation for wars. — Punch. THE SADNESS OF A TBANSITJ.ON PERIOD. [from New Poems, by Matthew Arnold.} Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern...thought are dumb : Silent they are, though not content, And wait to sec the future come. They have the grief men had of yore, But they contend and cry no more.... | |
 | 1904 - Počet stránok 668
...Yet, Freedom ! Yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunderstorm against the wind. 13. Achilles ponders in his tent ; The kings of modern...thought are dumb. Silent they are, though not content, And wait to see the future come. They have the grief men had of yore, But they contend and cry no more.... | |
 | 1919 - Počet stránok 1066
...great ideals. Mathew Arnold, in a mood of academic despondency, wrote of an age of transition, — Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern thought are dumb. Silent they stand, but not content, And wait to see the Future come. There may be some ex-kings of thought who... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - Počet stránok 226
...stings again ! The nobleness of grief is gone, — Ah, leave us not the fret alone ! But if you cannot give us ease, Last of the race of them who grieve...thought are dumb ; Silent they are, though not content, And wait to see the future come. They have the grief men had of yore, But they contend and cry no more.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - Počet stránok 286
...stings again ! The nobleness of grief is gone— Ah, leave us not the fret alone! But, if you cannot give us ease, Last of the race of them who grieve...who believe ! Silent, while years engrave the brow; Silent—the best are silent now. Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern thought are dumb;... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - Počet stránok 998
...taken away. He is almost ashamed of himself for singing at all. " The best are silent now," he says : " Achilles ponders in his tent; The kings of modern...thought are dumb ; Silent they are, though not content, And wait to see the future come. They have the grief man had of yore, But they contend and cry no more.... | |
 | 1871 - Počet stránok 674
...at all. And what says Matthew Arnold in one of his terse, melodious, and thoughtful verses ? — " Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern...thought are dumb, ' Silent they are, though not content, And wait to see the future come." A mere soldier of the rank and file would venture to suggest to those... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - Počet stránok 288
...stings again! The nobleness of grief is gone, — Ah, leave us not the fret alone! But if you cannot give us ease, Last of the race of them who grieve,...thought are dumb ; Silent they are, though not content, And wait to see the future come. They have the grief men had of yore, But they contend and cry no more.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1878 - Počet stránok 396
...outworn theme.— As if the world had ever had A faith, or sciolists been sadl But—if you cannot give us ease— Last of the race of them who grieve...who believe! Silent, while years engrave the brow; Silent—the best are silent now. Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern thought are dumb;... | |
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Achilles ponders in his tent, The kings of modern thought are dumb; Silent they are, though not content, And wait to see the future come. They have the grief men had of yore, But they contend and cry no more. 
