 | 1883 - 404 pages
...recently dead, has put this story, or the idea of it, into one of his poems, called 'The Builders.' " In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part ; For the gods ' are everywhere.' " It would be well for us always to bear in... | |
 | 1884 - 626 pages
...although I presume that he had not read Longfellow, he reminded me of those lines in " The Builders" — " Nothing useless is or low, Each thing in its place...but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest." There was rather a pause when the old square ceased, until the hammer bounced up on the bench, and... | |
 | Robert Bailey Thomas - 1841 - 522 pages
...so act on the part that It Is very likely to come upon them." THE BUILDERS. BY HENHY W. LONGFELLOW. Nothing useless is, or low, Each thing in its place...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... | |
 | 1860 - 1246 pages
...architects of Fate Working in those walls of Tin Some with massive deeds and git Some with ornaments of rhyn Nothing useless is, or low, Each thing in its place is best And what seems but idle show, Strengthen and support the re For the structure that we raise, Time is with material filled ; Our to-days... | |
 | 1904 - 668 pages
...HELGA. ARCHITECTURE ш OLD TIMES. — In Longfellow's poem of ' The Builders ' we find this stanza : — In the elder days of Art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere. That this is something more than mere poetical... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, nor low ; Each thing in its plane is best, And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1858 - 580 pages
...Time's city walls the temple of the Church, which is to see eternity. " Nothing useless is or low, Kurit 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 fill'd, Oar to-days and yesterdays Are 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...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... | |
 | 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...in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled ; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the... | |
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ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with 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 and supports the rest... 
