 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1875 - 170 pages
...Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had iruubered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1875 - 170 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Literature - 1875 - 944 pages
...Simonides Bore off the prize of verso from his compeers, When each had numbered moro than fourscore years; And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had...with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Talee; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 634 pages
...Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore year* . And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun...are, indeed, exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may How Into the Arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life... | |
 | Charities - 1877 - 1014 pages
...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...his characters of men. Chaucer at Woodstock, with his nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1877 - 400 pages
...Sunonides 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. stood. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 442 pages
...Siiuonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 218 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1878 - 660 pages
...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...past. These are, indeed, exceptions ; but they show IIow far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the Arctic regions of our lives, Where little else... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1878 - 450 pages
...Sinionides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had...Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust whe» eighty years were past. These are indeed exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf-stream of... | |
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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. 
