...criticism was made, we believe, with a reference similar to that contained in Matthew Arnold's lines : ' in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran...life With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife ' — that is to say, when games were played for fun and for...

...poem, "The Scholar Gipsy," he breaks forth once more into the old note of condemnation and regret: — O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And...life With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'er-taxed, its palsied hearts, was rife, Fly hence, our contact fear! This is only half a stanza,...

...particular mood which is specially characteristic of Arnold. In the " Scholar Gipsy " he laments " the strange disease of modern life,'' With Its sick hurry, Its divided aims ; speaks of us " light half-believers of our casual creeds ; " tells how the wisest of us takes dejectedly...

...Countrymen.' B'IBORO. Matthew Arnold uses the phrase " sick hurry " in ' The Scholar-Gipsy,' stanza 21 : — This strange disease of modern life. With its sick hurry, its divided aim°. ALFRED ANSCOMBE. RVIKKS CENTENARY (11 S. iii. 306). — In the entry of the marriage of Robert...

...thine. Thou through the fields and through the woods dost stray, Koaming the country side, a truant boy, Nursing thy project in unclouded joy, And every doubt long blown by time away. fO born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before...

...his mourning notes over the perplexities and distracting influences thrust upon the heart and mind in this " Strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its head o'er-tasked, its palsied heart—" are apt to degenerate into mere bewailments. It is the part...

...mechanism). Eucken does not wish to come before us as the scholar or the scientific recluse stricken with ' this strange disease of modern life With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts.' He is sensitive to the world-movement of to-day, over its whole surface....

...Light half-believers of our casual creeds. Or again, from the sad and splendid " Scholar Gipsy " : — This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. Who is not familiar with the epigrammatic passage from the same poem? — Wandering between two worlds,...

...Light half -believers of our casual creeds. Or again, from the sad and splendid " Scholar Gipsy" : — This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims. "Who is not familiar with the epigrammatic passage from the samepoem? — Wandering between two worlds,...

...Matthew Arnold's poems we find full expression of the thoughts and feelings which have their origin in " This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts." The unrest of our strenuous life — its disdainful rejection of nostrums...