 | Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton - Educators - 1911 - 376 pages
...Oxford at this period are well expressed by her poet-son in the majestic well-known lines of' Obermann' The East bowed low before the blast In patient deep...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. Vir believed that, withdrawn from the world, we allowed all the energy and reality to hurry past without... | |
 | Price Collier - East Asia - 1911 - 556 pages
...impious younger world. The Roman tempest swell'H and swell'd And on her head was hurl'd. "The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again." n THE GATEWAY TO INDIA IT is because they are very sophisticated, or because they know the wonders... | |
 | Price Collier - East Asia - 1911 - 556 pages
...impious younger world. The Roman tempest swell'd and swell'd And on her head was hurl'd. "The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again." n THE GATEWAY TO INDIA IT is because they are very sophisticated, or because they know the wonders... | |
 | Meredith White Townsend - Asia - 1911 - 436 pages
...reflection that the thoughts of so many years are all summed up by a great poet1 in four lines : fhe East bowed low before the blast. In patient deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder past, Then plunged in thought again. 1 Matthew ArniU But the insight of the poet always goes deeper than... | |
 | George Spring Merriam - American essays - 1911 - 362 pages
...beheld Her impious younger world. The Roman tempest swelled and swelled. And on her head was hurled. The East bowed low before the blast. In patient, deep disdain: She let the legions thunder post. And plunged in thought again. So well she mused, a morning broke Across her spirit gray, A conquering,... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - Socialism - 1912 - 462 pages
...first time the spiritual treasures harbored by civilizations which through long ages we have despised. The East bowed low before the blast In patient, deep...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again — not alone for her own sake, surely. In the great Providence that rules the destinies of the peoples... | |
 | Classical geography - 1912 - 354 pages
...centralization of power under Chandragupta Maurya. Our author is confusing Alexander with Menander. "The East bowed low before the blast In patient, deep...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. * ' Matthew Arnold: Obermann. 48. Ozene.— This is the modern Ujjain, 23° 11' N., 75° 47' E. , the... | |
 | Philosophy - 1965 - 138 pages
...this former contact between East and West : first, the impact of a Europe drunk with power upon Asia. The East bowed low before the blast In patient deep...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. And finally the heeding of the voice of the East, in other words the acceptance of the truths of the... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1909 - 1132 pages
...and West has produced its inevitable result. Matthew Arnold's hackneyed lines — The East bowed down before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She let...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again — are completely out of date. To plunge in thought is the last thing that the modern Hindu dreams... | |
 | 1928 - 374 pages
...is East and West is West, And never the twain shall meet. . . ." and there is another which runs : " The East bowed low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain, She let the legions thunder past, And turned to thought again." What do these popular verses convey to you ? Is our difference as striking,... | |
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The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And 'plunged in thought again. 
