 | Alexander Harrison Tuttle - 1901 - 50 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...toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years had past. These are indeed exceptions; but they show How far the gulf stream of our youth may flow... | |
 | Emma Frances Angell Drake - 1902 - 240 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 gulph-stream of our youth may flow Into the Arctic regions of our lives Where little else than life... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1902 - 924 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...past. These are indeed exceptions ; but they show 250 How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 924 Seiten
..."Characters of Men." At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust...past. These are indeed exceptions ; but they show 250 How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little... | |
 | State Medical Society of Wisconsin - 1893 - 436 Seiten
...numbered more 23 — s. M. s. 'Than years fourscore. That 'Theophrastus at fourscore and ten 'Had but begun his characters of men. 'Chaucer at Woodstock...nightingales 'At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; 'Goethe at Neimar, toiling to the last, 'Completed Faust when eighty years are past.' These are indeed exceptions;... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1904 - 386 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 may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life... | |
 | Amory Howe Bradford - 1905 - 384 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...These are indeed exceptions; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives." — " MONTURI SALUTAMUS."... | |
 | CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE, PH. D. - 1905 - 778 Seiten
...fourscore and ten, Had but l>!gun his ' Characters of Men.' Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingale:!, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar,...were past. These are indeed exceptions; but they show 250 How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little... | |
 | Adele Millicent Smith - 1905 - 182 Seiten
...nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty. ****** Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty...last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past." If a dash is used to denote that a quotation is not complete, quotation marks should be placed after... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 730 Seiten
...fourscore and ten, Had but brgun his ' Characters of Men.' Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingalea, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar,...eighty years were past. These are indeed exceptions; bat they show 250 How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives,... | |
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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. 
