...constant state of flux ; his frame of mind is fitly represented by Matthew Arnold's fine lines : — The East bowed low before the blast In patient deep...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. The mind of the true Eastern is at once lethargic and suspicious ; he does not want to be reformed,...

...would eventually come to see that the English were right. As a poet had said — *' Th« East bow'd low before the blast, In patient, deep disdain ; She...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again." And that was to some extent still the present state of affairs. A cordial vote of thanks was passed...

...the rulers by a gulf of thoughts and aspirations. In the East thought is stronger than armies : • The East bowed low before the blast In patient, deep disdain ; She let the legions thunder past, Then plunged in thought again.' The so-called critics, like Mr. Keir Hardie, MP, make the problem of...

...Europeesche inmenging betreft, is misschien ook op Perzië toepasselijk hetgeen Matthew Arnold zegt: „The East bowed low before the blast, In patient deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, Then plunged in thought again". schapping met steeds machtiger buren, verwierven zij zich wereldlijk...

...have sometimes died to live. They have imposed their language, customs and ideas upon the conquerors. "The brooding East with awe beheld Her impious younger world. The Roman tempest swell'd and swell'd And on her head was hurl'd. " Thus Spake Zarathustra. "On the Blissful Islands."...

...vehement energies, as a surface trifler ; his invasions and conquerings as inferior outside performances. The East bowed low before the blast In patient, deep...let the legions thunder past. And plunged in thought ugnin. There has been here, doubtless, a disproportion, an undue neglect of the outside world ; an...

...with Eastern literature and thought adopt the opinion expressed by a well-known English poet, that — The East bowed low before the blast In patient deep disdain, She let the legions thunder past, Then plunged in thought again. The same idea is expressed by a more recent and more forcible writer...

...largely disappeared — the spirit which inspired Matthew Arnold's lines, "The East bow'd low beneath the blast, In patient, deep disdain ; She let the...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again." To-day, India, like all the East, is quiveringly alive and alert, and insistent in demands upon the...

...Arnold has summed up its spirit with marvellous insight in the well-known verse — "The East bow'd low before the blast In patient, deep disdain; She...legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again." And that thought was for ever turned in upon itself, unfruitful, unpractical, unprogressive. The really...

...beginning. When Rome flung forth her armies to reduce the world to her will, The East bowed low beneath the blast In patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, And plunged in thought again. So the popes that rose into any kind of greatness — most of them do not seem to have risen above...