 | 1885 - 478 σελίδες
...into wider spaces of thought from the rigid limits of a dogmatic religious training — " For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and...Showed me the high white star of truth, — There bade me gaze, and there aspire." The son of Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, was born into an atmosphere of spiritual... | |
 | Grace Atkinson Oliver - 1885 - 470 σελίδες
...Chartreuse : ' — ' For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith and trimmed its fires Showed me the high white star of truth, There bid me gaze, and there aspire.' This influence, felt by the son of Arnold, was doubtless the same as that which ruled the early ARNOLD'S... | |
 | 1886 - 860 σελίδες
...could feel a certain passion of regret without either much sympathy or much hope: — For rigorous teachers seized my youth. And purged its faith, and...fire, Showed me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the gloom : What dost thou in this living... | |
 | 1887 - 586 σελίδες
...whom, gratefully looking back to what they did for us, we say with Matthew Arnold : " For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith and...fire, Showed me the high white star of truth, There bade me gaze and there aspire." What thus holds of ordinary teaching has redoubled force for the teaching... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - 1892 - 472 σελίδες
...before me ! I behold The House, the Brotherhood austere ! And what am I, that I am here ? " For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and...fire, Showed me the high, white star of truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the gloom : ' What dost thou in this... | |
 | 1893 - 380 σελίδες
...skepticism, in words that bear a different meaning from that which he who wrote them intended : "For rigorous teachers seized my youth And purged its faith and...fire, Showed me the high white Star of Truth, There bade me gaze and there aspire." There are, as I have already said, perils of faith as well as perils... | |
 | William Barton Rogers - 1896 - 466 σελίδες
...reference to " severer guides " will remind the reader of Matthew Arnold's lines : — " For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith and...— Showed me the high white star of truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire." As long as he lived Mr. Rogers kept fresh and keen his love for poetry,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1896 - 244 σελίδες
...creeds, of the influx of new knowledge, ideals, fashions of life, habits of thought. " For rigorous teachers seized my youth And purged its faith and trimmed its fire ; Show'd me the high white star of truth, There bade me gaze and there aspire." : thus could he write... | |
 | 1899 - 544 σελίδες
...taken place in him, the void left in his heart, the " nameless sadness " that resulted. For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and...fire, Showed me the high white star of Truth, There bade me gaze and there aspire. In the "Carthusian Monastery" he feels As on some far northern strand,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1900 - 364 σελίδες
...could feel a certain passion of regret without either much sympathy or much hope : — " For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and...fire, Showed me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. Even now their whispers pierce the gloom : What dost thou in this living... | |
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For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimmed its fire, Showed me the high, white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire. 
