 Yes, darling; let them go;" so ran the strain: "Yes; let them go, gain, fashion, pleasure, power, And all the busy elves to whose domain Belongs the nether sphere, the fleeting hour. "Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the...  Picturesque Quebec: A Sequel to Quebec Past and Present - Page 66by Sir James MacPherson Le Moine - 1882 - 535 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1902 - 598 pages
...hour. " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign. Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine. " Fortune, that lays in sport the mighty low, Age, that to penance turns the joys of youth, Shall leave... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1903 - 314 pages
...hour. " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign. Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine. The decision of the Edinburgh electors was a greater loss to Parliament than to Macaulay. He thoroughly... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 544 pages
...fleeting hour. "Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether world, the fleeting hour resign : Mine is the world of Thought, the world of Dream ; Mine all the Past, and all the Future mine. " Fortune, that lays in sport the mighty low, Age that to penance turns the joys of youth, Shall leave... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1904 - 336 pages
...youth, Shall leave untouched the gifts which I bestow. The sense of beauty and the thirst of truth. " ' Of the fair brotherhood who share my grace I, from...nobler place, I keep for none a happier than for thee. " ' And even so, my child it is my pleasure That thou not then alone shouldst feel me nigh When in... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1904 - 416 pages
...hour. " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign. Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine. " Fortune, that lays in sport the mighty lovr, Age, that to penance turns the joys of youth, Shall... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1905 - 180 pages
...stanza : " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign, Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine." A few days later he wrote to his sister : " My table is covered with letters of condolence and with... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1905 - 172 pages
...stanza: " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign, Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine." A few days later he wrote to his sister: " My table is covered with letters of condolence and with... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1906 - 660 pages
...humanity, it must rise to heights which will enable it to say, with Macaulay's spirit of literature, ' Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream ; Mine all the past, and all the future mine.' We may end by saying that this is in no sense a defence of ' academic art,' so called, but the expression... | |
 | 1907 - 690 pages
...no fears, for he, like William McClure in a very different sphere, was an honor to the profession. And if for some I keep a nobler place : I keep for none a happier than for thee. — Maca\ila\. SEVENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TENNESSEE STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. OCR readers... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 266 pages
...hour. " Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign. Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine. 4o " Fortune, that lays in sport the mighty low, Age, that to penance turns the joys of youth, Shall... | |
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