| Living voices - 1873 - 588 pages
...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old ; Old Age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth... | |
| Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old ; Old age hath yet his honour and his toil ; Death closes all : but something ere...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1874 - 200 pages
...f0reheads-you and I are old ; ^3thcjyethis honour and his toiU So^;' : buts0rr the end, ^HC/J to t\v Tlv Af, It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth... | |
| Homer - 1875 - 156 pages
...ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Puali off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding...Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew." CHAPTER XI. CONCLUDING EEMARKS. THE resemblance which these Homeric poems bear, in many remarkable... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order, smite The sounding farrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and...touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, wbem we knew. Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 356 pages
...my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. ca It may be that the gulfs will wash us down : It may...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. T ho' much is taken, much abides ; and tho' Vie are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...purpose holds " There lies the port : the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark bread seas." To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western...die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It maybe we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 pages
...order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds We are not now that strength which in old To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western...Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho* (days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are; (we are... | |
| 1878 - 770 pages
...unknown region : — " My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me,— . . Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer...see the great Achilles whom we knew. Though much is l.akcn, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven... | |
| Henry Morton Stanley - 1878 - 666 pages
...and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us...whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides ; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we... | |
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