Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. - Matthew Arnold

Singing, "Here came a mortal, But faithless was she: And alone dwell for ever The kings of the sea."

What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.

O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o’ertax’d, its palsied hearts, was rife.