| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1910 - 686 Seiten
...serenity of books ; The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain I But why, you ask me, should this tale be told To men...grown old, or who are growing old ? It is too late ! All, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1911 - 220 Seiten
...involved, see on eruditius, p. 116. vitae aequalis fait. Cf. with this Longfellow's Morituri Salutamus :— But why, you ask me, should this tale be told To men...learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simonides CHAPTER VII. ista divina studia omittamus, possum nominare ex agro Sabino rusticos... | |
| Irving King - 1912 - 456 Seiten
...hand in hand with service, and that the duty of the university to the city and the state is to lif t our citizens to higher ideals. The influence of 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 than... | |
| Irving King - 1912 - 446 Seiten
...and unattractive schoolroom, or climbing sixty or seventy steps to sit upon a bench intended •nly for children. So a change in the construction of our...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 than... | |
| Irving King - 1912 - 456 Seiten
...them in public parks. As New York is the pioneer in this work of adult education, so is she the — ' in this peaceful method of civic celebration. The...learned Greek at eighty, Sophocles Wrote his grand QEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than... | |
| 1917 - 256 Seiten
...punched-out area in the bones with thickening in the bony substance around the area. AGE AND ACCOMPLISHMENT. "But why, you ask me should this tale be told To men grown old, or growing old? It is too late! Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.... | |
| Ethel Maude Colson - 1918 - 206 Seiten
...Longfellow's " Moriruri Salutamus," with its artistic and comforting suggestions of a change not entirely sad. But why, you ask me, should this tale be told To men...late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. What then? Shall we sit idly down and say The night hath come ; it is no longer day ? The night hath... | |
| Harry Lyman Koopman - 1919 - 648 Seiten
...serenity of books; The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain I But why, you ask me, should this tale be told To men...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 than... | |
| 1912 - 662 Seiten
...more fundamental than all this is the proper developing of the city's boys. ACHIEVEMENTS OF OLD AGE. It is too late! Ah! nothing is too late Till the tired...learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than... | |
| William Sebastian Walsh - 1920 - 394 Seiten
...by old men. Cicero gives us many examples of the efficiency of age ; likewise Longfellow, who says : "But why, you ask me, should this tale be told To men grown old, or who are growing old? It ls too late! Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek... | |
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