| American essays - 1872 - 810 pages
...level-lived. Fruitful and friendly for all human-kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till tne wise years decide. Our children shall behold his fame. The kindly earnest, brave, foreseeing man,... | |
| Richard Edwards - Elocution - 1867 - 510 pages
...not — it were too late ; And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in...simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. 7. Great captains with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...not — it were too late; And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in...a fate. So always firmly he ; He knew to bide his tune, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide.... | |
| Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - Readers - 1868 - 510 pages
...not — it were too late; And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in...his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime3 • Till the wise years decide. 7. Great captains with their guns and drums Disturb our judgment... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...not ; it were too late ; And some inuative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory adise. WILLIAM EDMONSTOWNE AYTOUNE. AFAR IN THE DESERT....that have long since fled Flit over the brain, like t conies ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...not ; it were too late ; And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory e tn ihr unoky light the -waters of fkf r///.'" THE IVY GREEN. 0, A DAINTY lost silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his... | |
| Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...not — it were too late; And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in...simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide. 7. Great captains with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence... | |
| William Cleaver Wilkinson - English literature - 1874 - 360 pages
...him not; it were too late; And some inuative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in...as in a fate. So always firmly he : He knew to bide hie time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years decide.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...not; it were too late ; And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in...himself as in a fate. So always firmly he: He knew to bidr his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, Till the wise years... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...him not; it were too late; And some innative weakness there must be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present gives, and cannot wait, Safe in himself as in a fate. So always firmly ho: He knew to bide his time, And can his fame abide, Still patient in his simple faith sublime, and... | |
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