 | Granville series - 1882 - 330 страници
...bent and downcast eyes, We may discern, unseen before, A path to higher destinies. 12. Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If...its wrecks at last, To something nobler we attain. VIETUE. 1. Sweet day ! so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 страници
...Republic. Tin burnt child dreads the fire. p. BEN JOHNSON—The Devil in an Ass. Act I. Se. 2. Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If,...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. q. LONGFELLOW— The Ladder of St. Augustine. This life of ours is a wild œolian harp of But under... | |
 | 1902 - 158 страници
...at sea in 1646.— Front of Trowbridge Sons office, State Street. THE PHANTON SHIP.—By Longfellow. In Mather's Magnalia Christi, Of the old Colonial...and frosty airs, That filled her sails at parting, Were heavy with good men's prayers. "Oh Lord! if it be thy pleasure—" Thus prayed the old divine—... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 924 страници
...bent and dowucnst eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies, Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain. If,...To something nobler we attain. THE PHANTOM SHIP IN Ma tlier's Magnalia Christi, Of the old colonial time, May be found in prose the legend That is here... | |
 | 1902 - 692 страници
...and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A p.ith to higher destinies. " Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If,...its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain." Do not let the past, either its success or its failures, trouble you; for this one thing is true,—no... | |
 | 1902 - 420 страници
...truth. However stormy the voyage out of the ages, however distant still the perfect truth, deem not "The irrevocable past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If,...its wrecks at last, To something nobler we attain." And that nation or that man who will fearlessly face and courageously solve every problem of life in... | |
 | William Barrett Frankland - 1902 - 186 страници
...its grotesque stamp is forgotten. CHAPTER XVI A CENTURY OF LIGHT.—II (1850-1900 AD) Nor deem the irrevocable past As wholly wasted, wholly vain ; If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something higher we attain. Longfellow. Like many another epigram, Carlyle's terse definition of genius, as "... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1902 - 536 страници
...abandoned the purpose, which Longfellow subsequently carried out, with dramatic effect, as follows : — A ship sailed from New Haven ; And the keen and frosty airs, That filled her saila at parting, Were heavy with good men's prayers. But Master Lamberton muttered, And under his... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1902 - 924 страници
...shoulders bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, THE PHANTOM SHIP Of the old colonial time,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1903 - 728 страници
...bent and downcast eyes, We may discern — unseen before — A path to higher destinies, Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If,...in prose the legend That is here set down in rhyme. That filled her sajls at parting, A ship sailed from New Haven, And the keen and frosty airs, Were... | |
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^irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. THE PHANTOM SHIP. IN Mather's Magnalia Christi, Of the old colonial time, May be found in prose the legend That is here set down in rhyme.... 
