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" ... the human effort and sorrow going on perpetually from age to age, waves rolling for ever, and winds moaning for ever, and faithful hearts trusting and sickening for ever, and brave lives dashed away about the rattling beach like weeds... "
Irish Monthly - Page 533
1914
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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate

Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...all the while « mingled with the senne of unfathomable danger, and the human effort and sorrow gning on perpetually from age to age ; waves rolling for...faithful hearts trusting and sickening for ever, and bravo lives dashed away about the rattling beech like weeds for ever; and still, at the helm of every...
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Academy Notes

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) - 1883 - 608 pages
...VINCENT P. YGLESIAS. 36 x 58. 53 oá . 3 o u I 48x66. No. 351. l'A hopeless dawn." FRANK BRAMLEY. " Human effort and sorrow going on perpetually from age to age ; waves rolling for erer, and winds moaning, and faithful hearts wasting and sickening for ever, and brave lives dashed...
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Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

John Ruskin - 1884 - 504 pages
...shriek, — the joy and beauty of it all the while so mingled with the sense of unfathomable danger, and the human effort and sorrow going on perpetually from...and still at the helm of every lonely boat; through Btarless night and hopeless dawn, His hand, who spread the fisher's net over the dust of the Sidonian...
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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay

George Saintsbury - 1885 - 424 pages
...or flying high into the breeze." " Brave lives dashed Away about the rattling beach lihe weeds." '' Still at the helm of every lonely boat, Through starless night and hopeless dawn, His hand." Now this is wrong, though of course it is impossible always to avoid a complete heroic cadence. So...
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A Bundle of Letters from Over the Sea

Louise B. Robinson - 1889 - 320 pages
...wasting and sickening forever, and brave lives dashed away about the rattling beach like weeds forever; and still, at the helm of every lonely boat, through starless night and hopeless dawn, His hand who spreads the fisher's net over the dust of the Sidouian palaces, and gave into the fisher's hand the...
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Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill and Other Literary Estimates

Frederic Harrison - 1899 - 338 pages
...— the joy and beauty of it, all the while, so mingled with the sense of unfathomable danger, and the human effort and sorrow going on perpetually from...at the helm of every lonely boat, through starless 1 In the second volume of Modern Painters, p. 132, may be found a mammoth sentence, I suppose the most...
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Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill and Other Literary Estimates

Frederic Harrison - 1899 - 350 pages
...till we feel like landsmen caught in a sudden squall. And then how grand are the last ten lines— ' the human effort and sorrow going on perpetually from age to age —!' down to that daring antithesis of the fisherman of Tyre and the fisherman of St. Peter's ! I...
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Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures and Sculptures in the ...

Tate Gallery - 1900 - 254 pages
...GH Boughton, 1882. EHAMLEY (FRANK), ARA No. 1627. 4 Hopeless Dawn. " Human effort and sorrow goinpr on perpetually from age to age. Waves rolling for ever, and winds moaning, and faithful hearts wasting and si-'kening for ever, and brave lives dashed away about the rattling...
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The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 13

John Ruskin - 1904 - 834 pages
...— the joy and beauty of it, all the while, so mingled with the sense of unfathomable danger, and the human effort and sorrow going on perpetually from...every lonely boat, through starless night and hopeless dawn,1 His hand, who spread the fisher's net over the dust of the Sidonian palaces, and gave into the...
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Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism

William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pages
...till we feel like landsmen caught in a sudden squall. And then how grand are the last ten lines — "the human effort and sorrow going on perpetually from age to age" — ! down to that daring antithesis of the fishermen of Tyre and the fisherman of St. Peter's ! I...
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