 | Constance Fenimore Woolson - 2004 - 376 psl.
...stride, Traverse in troops, with care-fill'd breast, The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East, And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance and nod...by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. So chanted Matthew Arnold of the English of today.32 And if we are to believe what is preached to us... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 2000 - 360 psl.
...their souls': The phrase is a partial quotation from Matthew Arnold's poem 'A Southern Night': 'And see all sights from pole to pole, | And glance, and...| And never once possess our soul | Before we die' (69-71). Arnold's elegy was first published in The Victoria Regia, ed. Adelaide A. Procter (London,... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1084 psl.
...favourite phrase, to "possess his soul " ; and the chief fault the poet finds with his countrymen is that we "See all sights from pole to pole, And glance,...• And never once possess our soul Before we die." The lesson he himself draws from the world is, Resignation. Nature herself teaches it : — " Yet,... | |
 | 246 psl.
...Traverse in troops, with care-fill'd breast, The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East, 18 And see all sights from Pole to Pole, And glance, and...by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. 19 Not by those hoary Indian hills, Not by this gracious Midland sea Whose floor to-night sweet moonshine... | |
 | 1877 - 562 psl.
...Southern Night." The context is a* ollowB, speaking of the restlessness of modern Englishmen:— And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and...by; And never once possess our soul Before we die." 4ot " Until we die," which quite spoils the sense. J. LEICESTER WARREN. NOTES ON BOOKS, !tc. 'Jittory... | |
 | 1885 - 808 psl.
...stride, Traverse in troops, with care-filled breast The soft Mediterranean side, The Nile, the East, And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance and nod...bustle by, And never once possess our soul Before v>e die." Another suggestion which we would here make, is the advantage that it is to very busy practical... | |
 | 1906 - 870 psl.
...the combined Senior and Junior Chapters of St. Barnabas, Chester, at a recent joint Chapter meeting. And glance, and nod, and bustle by, And never once possess our soul Before we die. — Matthew Arnold. Canadian News The first Local Assembly meeting ever held in Vancouver, B. C, took... | |
 | Karl Hilty - 1902 - 728 psl.
...bestehen kann. Auch die «Wissenschaft» würde ihm das nicht ersetzen können. «We know all things from pole to pole, And glance and nod and bustle by, And never once possess our sonl Before we dle.» Und hier wende ich mich nun ganz speziell an die jüngere Generation der anwesenden... | |
 | திருவள்ளுவர், George Uglow Pope - 1980 - 454 psl.
...sense of xflf may Com p. M. Arnold : — ' We see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and rush, and bustle by, And never once possess our soul, Before we die.' '269. ' (Jui poeuitentiae decus obtiuuernnt. <?1 ipsius " Yamnis " qiii ueus est mortis, poterunt innnus... | |
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and bustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die. 
