| Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes - 1888 - 894 Seiten
...to "¡nocuous desuetude." These oft-quoted lines of Longfellow seem to fit nicely right here: It 1« too late! Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart...cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty. Sophoclen Wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simonidee Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers. When... | |
| 1882 - 688 Seiten
...; it was a " Psalm of Life." " ' Morituri Salutamus ' is the grandest hymn to age ever written." " Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate/' Mr. Longfellow had a rugged-lined face, a Roman nose, clear-blue, lustrous i882.| PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL.... | |
| Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 Seiten
...friendship. Three silences there are : the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought. Nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints... | |
| James Mann Campbell - 1889 - 284 Seiten
...appear and are irretrievable to us, but there is nothing irretrievable with God." — THOS. ERSKINE. " Nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate." LONGFELLOW ( Translation). " Heaven delights To pardon erring man : sweet mercy seems Its darling attribute,... | |
| Edward Payson Powell - 1889 - 220 Seiten
...approaching night, not a signal for rest, but a new summons to activity. He cries : ' Is it too late ? No, nothing is too late, Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate'—" And so he takes up his glad work again, and I think more of his sweetest and deepest songs date from... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1891 - 800 Seiten
...serenity of books ; The market-place, the eager love of gain. Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain ! But why, you ask me, should this tale be told To men .— own old, or who are growing old? It is too late ! Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart... | |
| Henry Austin Adams - 1893 - 210 Seiten
...Newman said to himself once on the brink of death ; and he came back to life, to England, and to work. " It is too late ! " "Ah, nothing is too late till the...learned Greek at eighty ; Sophocles wrote his grand ' CEdipus,' and Simonides bore off the prize of verse from his compeers when each had numbered more... | |
| Robert M. King - 1894 - 348 Seiten
...October Seize them, and whirl them aloft, and sprinkle them far o'er the ocean. — From Evangeline. But why, you ask me, should this tale be told To men...learned Greek at eighty ; Soph'ocles Wrote his grand Oed'ipus, and Simon 'ides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more... | |
| 1894 - 302 Seiten
...conclusion, let me say that the lecture course gives to the adult a new hope. It has taught the truth that " nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate." It has given to poor people larger visions and loftier ideals. It has put men and women in touch with... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1896 - 324 Seiten
...serenity of books ; The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain ! But why, you ask me, should this tale be told To men...grown old, or who are growing old ? It is too late 1 Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty... | |
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