 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1891 - 800 Seiten
...of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales. At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; (locthe, at Weimar, toiling to the last. Completed Faust when...are indeed exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf-stream of onr youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1891 - 616 Seiten
...and ten, Had but begun his 'Characters of Men.' Chaucer at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty, wrote the 'Canterbury Tales'; Goethe at Weimar, toiling...last, Completed 'Faust' when eighty years were past." If they had seen their talent at once, perhaps they had never become famous: it was the working up,... | |
 | Henry Austin Adams - 1893 - 210 Seiten
...ten, had but begun his 'Characters of Men.' Chaucer, at Woodstock, with the nightingales, at sixty, wrote the ' Canterbury Tales ; ' Goethe, at Weimar,...Arctic regions of our lives where little else than life itself survives." Oh ! my earnest brothers, it is still today! The night, the dark night, cometh when... | |
 | Robert M. King - 1894 - 348 Seiten
...and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Goethe, at Weimar, toiling...regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives. — From Moritu'ri Saluta'mus (We who are about to die salute you). Turn, turn, my... | |
 | Charles H. Banes - 1894 - 332 Seiten
...freshness and hopefulness of spirit which remained with him to the last. It would seem as if he wished to show — How far the gulf stream of our youth may flow Into the Arctic regions of our lives, When little else than life itself survives. As his own children were growing toward manhood and womanhood,... | |
 | Robert M. King - 1894 - 348 Seiten
...when eighty years were past. These are, indeed, exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives. — From Moritu'ri Saluta'mus (We who are about to die salute you). Turn, turn, my... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1895 - 232 Seiten
...and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Goethe at Weimar, toiling...These are indeed exceptions ; but they show How far tlie gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...with stars, invisible by day. t. LONGFELLOW — Moritiiri Salntamns. L. 281. How far the gulf-stream which was prov'd true before Prove false again? Two hundred itself survives. j. LONGFELLOW — Morituri Salutamus. L. 250. The course of my long life hath reached... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1896 - 1114 Seiten
...four-score and ten Had but begun his characters of men. Chaucer at Woodstock with the nightingales At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar toiling...to the last Completed Faust when eighty years were passed. The«e are indeed, exceptions; but they show How far the Gulf Stream of our youth may flow... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1896 - 1114 Seiten
...four-score and ten Had but begun his characters of men. Chaucer at Woodstock with the nightingales At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar toiling...to the last Completed Faust when eighty years were passed. These are indeed, exceptions; but they show How far the Gulf Stream of our youth may flow Into... | |
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CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty... 
