 | 1900 - 654 Seiten
...off the prize of verse from his compeers. When each had numbered more than fourscore years, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Goethe at Weimar, toiling...are indeed exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our life may flow." If there is a class of persons upon whom more than others there... | |
 | 1900 - 154 Seiten
...began, as a faithful servant in the Temple of Justice. He is indeed the rare exception which shows '• How far the gulf stream of our youth may flow Into...regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives." ALBERT C. TENNANT. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Albany Bar: Every one who is... | |
 | 1901 - 686 Seiten
...living example of that entirely too small class ci individuals described by the poet who says: "They are indeed exceptions, but they show How far the gulf...youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives." We were due in San Juan, March 7, but on account of a slight accident to some part of the machinery,... | |
 | Alexander Harrison Tuttle - 1901 - 50 Seiten
...fourscore 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 had past. These are indeed exceptions; but they show How far the gulf stream of our youth may flow... | |
 | Emma Frances Angell Drake - 1902 - 240 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 gulph-stream of our youth may flow Into the Arctic regions of our lives Where little else than life... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1902 - 924 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...past. These are indeed exceptions ; but they show 250 How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little... | |
 | State Medical Society of Wisconsin - 1893 - 436 Seiten
...the Canterbury Tales; 'Goethe at Neimar, toiling to the last, 'Completed Faust when eighty years are past.' These are indeed exceptions; but they show...youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives When little else than life itself survives. Shall we then idly sit us down and say, Old age has come,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 924 Seiten
..."Characters of Men." At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust...past. These are indeed exceptions ; but they show 250 How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1904 - 386 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...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... | |
 | Amory Howe Bradford - 1905 - 384 Seiten
...ten, Had but begun his ' Characters of men' ; Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the ' Canterbury Tales' ; Goethe, at Weimar,...These are indeed exceptions; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives." — " MONTURI SALUTAMUS."... | |
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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... 
