 | United States. 60th Congress, 2d sess., 1908-1909 - 1909 - 192 Seiten
...no longer day. The night has not yet come; we are not quite cut off from labor by the failing light. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty...eighty years were past. These are indeed exceptions; hut they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland - 1910 - 128 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, with the nightingales, At sixty wrote his Canterbury Tales; Goethe, at Wiemar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1911 - 224 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...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... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - 1911 - 778 Seiten
...When each had numbered more than four score years. And Theophraslus at four score and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men ; Chaucer, at Woodstock, with the nightingales, At sixty wrote his Canterbury Tales ; Goethe, at Wiemar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were... | |
 | HENRY FROWDE - 1912 - 1072 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... | |
 | 1916 - 450 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...At sixty wrote the "Canterbury Tales." Goethe, at Weimer, toiling to the last, Completed 'Taust" when eighty years were past. There is no doubt about... | |
 | 1917 - 256 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 with the nightingales At 60 wrote the 'Canterbury Tales.' Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed 'Faust' when 80 years... | |
 | Harry Lyman Koopman - 1919 - 648 Seiten
...compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten. 346 Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty...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... | |
 | 1912 - 662 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...last, Completed " Faust " when eighty years were past. What then! Shall we sit idly down and say The night hath come; it is no longer day? The night hath... | |
 | William Sebastian Walsh - 1920 - 394 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...nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Wiemar, toiling to the last, Completed Faus^ when eighty years were past. These are indee"3 exceptions;... | |
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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. 
