 Deem not, because you see me in the press Of this world's children run my fated race, That I blaspheme against a proffered grace, Or leave unlearned the love of holiness. I honour not that sanctity the less Whose aureole illumines not my face, But dare...  The Life and World of George Santayana - Pàgina 53per Richard Butler - 1960 - 205 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Santayana - 1906 - 112 pàgines
...dare not tread the secret, holy place To which the priest and prophet have access. For some are bom to be beatified By anguish, and by grievous penance...to be praised of men beneath the sun ; And some are oorn to stand perplexed aside From so much sorrow — of whom I am one. »3 MIGHTIER storms than this... | |
 | George Santayana - 1923 - 170 pàgines
...striving, wherefore ask What reasons were, or what rewards shall be? The covenant God_%ave us is a task. XI DEEM not, because you see me in the press Of this...perplexed aside From so much sorrow — of whom I am one. i - HBiT> — r— r- w. . XII MIGHTIER storms than this are brewed on earth That pricks the crystal... | |
 | Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Karl Shapiro, Henry Rago, Peter De Vries, Jessica North MacDonald, Marion Strobel - 1924 - 838 pàgines
...anguish, and by grievous penance done; And some, to furnish forth the age's pride, And to be praised by men beneath the sun; And some are born to stand perplexed aside From so much sorrow — of whom I am one. Sometimes in a mood as near to disdain as his comprehensive sympathy permits: It is my crown to mock... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - 1924 - 464 pàgines
...anguish, and by grievous penance done; And some, to furnish forth the age's pride, And to be praised by men beneath the sun; And some are born to stand perplexed aside From so much sorrow — of whom I am one. Sometimes in a mood as near to disdain as his comprehensive sympathy permits: It is my crown to mock... | |
 | Vivian Trow Thayer - 1923 - 808 pàgines
...an observer, not a participant, in the struggles of life. In his earliest book he says of himself, "For some are born to be beatified By anguish, and...perplexed aside From so much sorrow — of whom I am one." In his latest volume he generalizes : "What is the part of wisdom? To dream with one eye open ; to... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - 1995 - 348 pàgines
...without mediation the experience of solitude. One such passage is found in another sonnet's sestina: For some are born to be beatified By anguish, and...perplexed aside From so much sorrow — of whom I am one.40 The wandering of the self from its origins to its redemption is an ascetic adventure far removed... | |
 | 1893 - 474 pàgines
...like the religious element in them, in that it is never brave or joyous, yet it is definite — . . " And some are born to stand perplexed aside From so much sorrow — of whom I am one. and again — " For love of God one vigil thou canst keep And add thy drop of sorrow to the sea." Yet... | |
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