Ask him, however, midway in his running, what he thinks of quick breathing: he will answer that to be a shepherd on the downs is to be more a man.

As to the gobbling age, it really thinks better of him than he of it.
After a term of prolonged preachification he is compelled to lash that he may less despise the age.

He has to do it for his own sake.
O gobbling age! swallowing all, digesting nought, us too you have swallowed, O insensate mechanism! and we will let you know you have a stomach.

Furiously we disagree with you.

We are in you to lead you or work you pangs! Rockney could not be a mild sermoniser commenting on events.