...cheerily. In most things then they, too, followed in their fathers' footsteps, living as in the days — " Before this strange disease of modern life, With its...Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife." But they had one fault more than their fathers — they were politicians. This was O'Connell's work....

...from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea. CIX FLEE FRO' THE PRESS O BORN in days when wits were fresh and clear And...contact fear ! Still fly, plunge deeper in the bowering wood ! Averse, as Dido did with gesture stern From her false friend's approach in Hades turn, Wave...

...from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea. cix FLEE FRO' THE PRESS O BORN in days when wits were fresh and clear And...contact fear ! Still fly, plunge deeper in the bowering wood ! Averse, as Dido did with gesture stern From her false friend's approach in Hades turn, Wave...

...vicious." J It is the condition here described which was presented by Matthew Arnold in another way, as " This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'erstocked, and its palsied hearts." 1 Spaulding, Socialism and labor, p. 173. It is education broadly...

...spared, and to whom fortune has denied nothing, yet with a morbid capacity for suffering, talk of— " This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims." Those who have heard Mr. Fawcett's eager conversations, as I remember when meeting him at Mrs. Peter...

...country-side, a truant boy, Nursing thy project in unclouded joy, And every doubt long blown by time away. 200 O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And...disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided iiims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife— 205 Fly hence, our contact fear ! Still...

...country-side, a truant boy, Nursing thy project in unclouded joy, And every doubt long blown by time away. 2oo O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And...Thames ; Before this strange disease of modern life. j With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife — 205...

...flurried and fretful ; and you quoted with relish those lines of Matthew Arnold : " O born in times when wits were fresh and clear And life ran gaily...modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its palsied hearts, was rife ; Fly hence, our contact fear ; Still fly, plunge deeper in the bowering wood,...

...project in unclouded joy, /C^'"* And every doubt long blown by time away. ., i ' . .- .. ,. . ____ O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And...Thames ; Before this strange disease of modern life, With_its_sick hurry, its divided aims, Still fly, plunge deeper in the bowering wood ! Averse, as Dido...

...side, a truant boy, Nursing thy project in unclouded joy, And every doubt long blown by time away. O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames ; 336 Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads...