| Robert Bailey Thomas - 1841 - 522 pages
...low, Each thing in its place is best, And what seems but idle show, Strengthens and supports the rest. For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to- days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. Truly shape and fashion these ; Leave no... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1850 - 188 pages
...punctualitie and too much morositie are the two poles of pride." CHAPTER EIGHTH. WILLIAM WIRT'S CHILDHOOD. " For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials...Are the blocks with which we build." — Longfellow. FOR the encouragement of young men laboring under serious disadvantages, an example will now be given... | |
| 1850 - 144 pages
...stars Of morning sang together, sound forth still The song of our great immortality. Clje 33ulttiers. ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls...massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, nor low ; Each thing in its plane is best, And what seems but idle show Strengthens... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...not wholly stay ; By silence sanctifying, not concealing, The grief that must have way. THE BUILDERS. ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls...massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1850 - 184 pages
...punctualitie and too much morositie are the two poles of pride." CHAPTER EIGHTH. WILLIAM WIRT'S CHILDHOOD. " For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled ; Our to-days and yesterday?, Are the blocks with which we build." — Longfellow. FOR the encouragement of young men... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...not wholly stay; By silence sanctifying, not concealing, The grief that must have way. THE BUILDERS. ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls...massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show For the... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions." — K. Il'. Emerson. ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls...massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low, Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show, Strengthens... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...stay ; By silence sanctifying, not concealing, The grief that must have way. THE BUILDERS. ALL arc architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time...massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens... | |
| Elisha Reynolds Potter - 1852 - 406 pages
...to do a thing it becomes impossible. From Graham's Magazine. THE BUILDERS. BY HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls...Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornameats of rhyme. Nothing useless is, nor low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1852 - 250 pages
...energetic, indomitable man would have failed. THE BUILDERS. 1. ALL are architects of fate, Working in the walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. •» 2. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show,... | |
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