 | 1897 - 928 Seiten
...and ten Had but begun his " Characters of Men ; " Chaucer at Woodstock with his nightingales At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Goethe at Weimar, toiling...regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives. Measured by this test of creative power and its persistency, how variable is the duration... | |
 | David Schley Schaff - 1897 - 564 Seiten
...want is both LIBERTY and PEACE." CHAPTER XVII FIFTY YEARS A THEOLOGICAL TEACHER AND AUTHOR 1842-1892 These are indeed exceptions; but they show How far...regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives. LONGFELLOW. Old Age — Optimism — Godet's Eightieth Birthday — Dr. Mann's Death... | |
 | 1897 - 726 Seiten
...to the light to be clear. From Longfellow : "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 the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives. Where little else than life... | |
 | 1897 - 308 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...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... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1898 - 260 Seiten
...effectively resisted the encroachment of years. He did not live to extreme age, but he had well begun to show ''How far the gulf stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives." On the fourth of October, 1897, when he was in Washington City upon a professional engagement death... | |
 | 1905 - 808 Seiten
...ten, Had but begun his ' Characters oT Men.' Chaucer, at Woodstock, with his nightingales, At sixty wrote the ' Canterbury Tales.' Goethe, at Weimar,...the last, - Completed ' Faust ' when eighty years had passed. Something remains for us to do or dare ; Even the oldest tree some fruit may bear, For... | |
 | John Sartain - 1899 - 372 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 the gulf-stream of our youth mayjiow Into the arcJic region of our lives, Where little else than life itself... | |
 | George Gore - 1899 - 596 Seiten
...ten, Had but begun his ' Characters of Men.' Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the ' Canterbury Tales ' ; Goethe, at Weimar,...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1899 - 456 Seiten
...ten, Had but begun his " Characters of Men." Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Goethe at Weimar, toiling...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... | |
 | John Sartain - 1899 - 364 Seiten
...at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote tlie Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar, tailing to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are indeed exceptions; hut they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic region of our lives, Where... | |
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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... 
