 | Cora Wilson Stewart - 1922 - 284 Seiten
...recorded, might stamp with genius someone whom in its urgent need the world is seeking to-day. But why do you ask me should this tale be told To men grown old,...late ! Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart has ceased to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty. Sophocles Wrote his grand CEdipus, and Simonides... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 910 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 I Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty;... | |
 | Granville Stanley Hall - 1922 - 572 Seiten
...arrangement with, Doubleday, Page & Co. Longfellow strikes a less pessimistic note :*7 MORITURI SALUTAMUS Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at 80; Sophocles Wrote his grand CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse From his compeers... | |
 | 1922 - 876 Seiten
...eyes that still blazed with the fire of youth and of noble thought, as he read the lines: — Is it too late? Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress; And as the evening twilight... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 Seiten
...12 Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly! LONGFELLOW — Masque of Pandora. Pt. VII. 13 rom u . LONGFELLOW — MorUwri Salutamus. St. 24. 14 Tolle moras-^-semper nocuit differre paratis. Away with... | |
 | 1925 - 436 Seiten
...condition, without which not only is nothing achieved, but nothing is even attempted." WILLIAM JAMES. ' But why, you ask me, should this tale be told To men grown old, or who are growing old ? Is it too late ! Ah. nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned... | |
 | 1907 - 584 Seiten
...gathering wild berries, driving often, playing and being real children of Nature. ' Never too Late Nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease...learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand Œdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize for verse from his compeers When each had numbered more than... | |
 | Sinclair Lewis - 1927 - 450 Seiten
...pages, solemnly marking the passages which he was willing to sanction, and which did not mention wine. Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall...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... | |
 | 1905 - 950 Seiten
..." the mind touches its zeneith at forty-nine." And Longfellow's poem may be invoked to prove that: Nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease...learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize for verse from his compeers When each had numbered more than... | |
 | 1905 - 1096 Seiten
...come. And spite of philosophies, even he who sang his "Morituri Salutamus" found the signal of hope. "But why, you ask me, should this tale be told To...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... | |
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It is too late ! Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. 
