 | 1885 - 810 Seiten
...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...to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were pas', These are indeed exceptions, but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into... | |
 | 1885 - 1006 Seiten
...fourscore and ten Had but begun his characters of men. Chaucer at Woodstock, with the nightingale?, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales. Goethe at Weimar,...to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were pnst." When men cross voluntarily an imaginary "dead line," it partakes of cowardice or suicide. When... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 348 Seiten
...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...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 - 1887 - 360 Seiten
...hcophrastus, at fourscore and ten. Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock w.th the nightingales. At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales...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 - 1888 - 80 Seiten
...When each had numbered more than fourscore years And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, 245 Had but begun his Characters of Men ; Chaucer, at Woodstock...last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. 250 These are indeed exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf stream of our youth may flow Into... | |
 | Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes - 1888 - 894 Seiten
...numbered more than four »core years. And Theophrastus at four РСОГО and ten Had but begun hie Characters of Men Chaucer at Woodstock with the nightingales At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales. Goethe at Weemer, toiling to the last Completed Faust when eighty years were pastThese are indeed exceptions;... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1890 - 314 Seiten
...ornaments of rhyme. — Longfellow. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky.— Wordsworth. These are indeed exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf -stream of our youth may flow t Into the arciic regions of our lives, BAST — BI. (a fabled serpent, a serpent or lizard having... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1891 - 616 Seiten
...When each had. numbered more than fourscore years. And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his 'Characters of Men.' Chaucer at Woodstock...last, Completed 'Faust' when eighty years were past." If they had seen their talent at once, perhaps they had never become famous: it was the working up,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1891 - 800 Seiten
...When each had numbered more than fourscore years ; And Theophrnstus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock...nightingales. At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; (locthe, at Weimar, toiling to the last. Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are indeed... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1895 - 232 Seiten
...When each had numbered more than four score years, And Theophrastus, at four score and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock...These are indeed exceptions ; but they show How far tlie gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than... | |
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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. 
