 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - 1896 - 1114 Seiten
...compeers 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...to the last Completed Faust when eighty years were passed. The«e are indeed, exceptions; but they show How far the Gulf Stream of our youth may flow... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1896 - 1114 Seiten
...compeers 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...to the last Completed Faust when eighty years were passed. These are indeed, exceptions; but they show How far the Gulf Stream of our youth may flow Into... | |
 | 1897 - 308 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...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... | |
 | 1897 - 726 Seiten
...fair." Fragile and delicately tinted, but it must be held up to the light to be clear. From Longfellow : "Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty...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... | |
 | 1905 - 808 Seiten
...Theophratua, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his ' Characters oT Men.' Chaucer, at Woodstock, with his nightingales, At sixty wrote the ' Canterbury Tales.'...the last, - Completed ' Faust ' when eighty years had passed. Something remains for us to do or dare ; Even the oldest tree some fruit may bear, For... | |
 | John Sartain - 1899 - 372 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...These are indeed exceptions; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth mayjiow Into the arcJic region of our lives, Where little else than life itself... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1899 - 456 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...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... | |
 | George Gore - 1899 - 628 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...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... | |
 | John Sartain - 1899 - 364 Seiten
...compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had hut begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote tlie Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar, tailing to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were... | |
 | 1900 - 654 Seiten
...Simonides Bore 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,...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... | |
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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. 
