 It is too late! Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore...  The Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic - Page 4361885Full view - About this book
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1886 - 1000 pages
...s to palpitate. Onto learned (in-ek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grind JE iiput , and Siuioniues Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered morn than four-score years, And Theophrastus at four-score and ten, Had but begun the ' Character if... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1875 - 170 pages
...cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When...to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were pa'st. These are indeed exceptions; but they show How far the gulf.stream of our youth may flow Into... | |
 | 1875 - 944 pages
...grand Œdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verso from his compeers, When each had numbered moro than fourscore years; And Theophrastus, at fourscore...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 - 1875 - 170 pages
...cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty ; Sophocles Wrote his grand Gvlipus, and 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 but begun his Characters... | |
 | 1877 - 1014 pages
...Longfellow declared : ' ' Cato learned Greek at eighty, Sophocles Wrote his grand CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When...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 - 1877 - 400 pages
...cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty ; Sophocles Wrote his grand CEdipus, and Sunonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When...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 - 1877 - 634 pages
...cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty ; Sophocles Wrote his grand (Edipus, and 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 his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 442 pages
...cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty ; Sophocles Wrote his grand (Edipus, and Siiuonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When...to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are indeed .exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 218 pages
...cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty ; Sophocles Wrote his grand CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers When...to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are indeed exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 660 pages
...ccaso to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty ; Sophocles Wrote his grand CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When...to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are, indeed, exceptions ; but they show IIow far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow... | |
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