THE longer on this earth we live And weigh the various qualities of men, Seeing how most are fugitive, Or fitful gifts, at best, of now and then, Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty Of plain... Primary Education - Page 2281903Full view - About this book
| 1875 - 782 pages
...movement then Than this we fret in, he a denizen Of that ideal Rome that made a man for men. VI. I. The longer on this earth we live And weigh the various qualities of men, Seeing how most are fugitive, Or fitful gifts, at best, of now and then, Wind-wavered corpse-lights,... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1911 - 710 pages
...public career of this faithful servant makes us appreciate more keenly these words of Lowell : 'The longer on this earth we live And weigh the various...stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness to duty.' "In his conduct of the office of attorney and counselor at law, in the position of master in chancery... | |
| 1901 - 998 pages
...conserves his character, perfects his scholarship, and strengthens his health. The Record of a Long Life1 " The high, stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness...with mortal praise, But finding amplest recompense In work done squarely and unwasted days.1' THIS quotation from Lowell might well have been written... | |
| 1898 - 1146 pages
...with women. If women would not wear dead birds on their hats, the birds would not be killed. Duty The longer on this earth we live And weigh the various qualities of men, Seeing how most are fugitive Or fitful gifts at best, of now and then — Wind-wavered copse-lights,... | |
| 1875 - 780 pages
...movement then Than this we fret in, he a denizen Of that ideal Rome that made a man for men. VI. 1. The longer on this earth we live And weigh the various qualities of men, Seeing how most are fugitive, Or fitful gifts, at best, of now and then, Wind-wavered corpse-lights,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pages
...fugitive, Or fitful gifts, at best, of now and then, Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty Of...life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. For this we honor him, that he could know How sweet the service and how free ) Of her,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 112 pages
...movement then Than this we fret in, he a denizen Of that ideal Rome that made a man for men. I. THE longer on this earth we live And weigh the various qualities of men, Seeing how most are fugitive, Or fitful gifts, at best, of now and then, Wind-wavered corpse-lights,... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 474 pages
...Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty 290 Of plain devotedness to duty, Steadfast and still,...life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. 295 For this we honor him, that he could know How sweet the service and how free Of... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 596 pages
...corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty 290 Of plain dcvoteclness to duty, Steadfast and still, nor paid with mortal...life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. r 295 For this we honor him, that he could know How sweet the service and how free Of... | |
| Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 480 pages
...Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty 290 Of plain devotedness to duty, Steadfast and still,...praise, But finding amplest recompense For life's ungarlandcd expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. 288. The daughters of the fen, — will-o'-the-wisps.... | |
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