 His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest...  Harvard Memorial Biographies - Page xivedited by - 1866 - 517 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1872 - 810 pages
...lured by any cheat of birth, But by his clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity I His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind Thrusting...o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapcrs blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lived. Fruitful and friendly for all human-kind,... | |
 | 1879 - 692 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting...o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now. now lost in vapours blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined Fruitful and friendly for all human kind,... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1868 - 300 pages
...true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. He was no lonely mountain peak of mind Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars A seamark now, now lost in vapours blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for his humankind,... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1869 - 524 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will, That bent like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting...rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven, and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. nis was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to*...rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to Heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. heaven. A moment, and its lustre fell ; But ere it...to thee, fay ! thy task is done, Thy wings are pure all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple.tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain.peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea. mark now, now lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level. lined, Fruitful and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. h slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged liars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting...rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to Heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then,... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1874 - 360 pages
...That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting...rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then,... | |
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