 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 334 pages
...that of the grand climacteric, when he read to his son the poem he called " Terminus," beginning : " It is time to be old, To take in sail. The God of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in hia fatal rounds And said, ' No more ! ' " It was early in life to feel that the productive stage was... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...passage from it has been quoted for a particular purpose, but here is the whole poem : — TERMINUS. It is. time to be old, To take in sail: — The god...shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. There 's not enough for... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...passage from it has been quoted for a particular purpose, but here is the whole poem : — TERMINUS. It is time to be old, To take in sail: — The god...shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. There 's not enough for... | |
 | Frances Mary Peard - 1892 - 304 pages
...our years, long that we had given a swifter and more generous answer. CHAPTER XTTT. FOB HILVARDINE. "It is time to be old, To take in sail:— The god...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said, 'No more!'" EMEKSON. AFTER all, the Sandpoort party did not remain long absent. Hilvardine was surprised one day... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 pages
...passage from it has been quoted for a particular purpose, but here is the whole poem : — TERMINUS. It is time to be old, To take in sail: — The god...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : " No more I No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...passage from it has been quoted for a particular purpose, but here is the whole poem: — TERMINUS. It is time to be old, To take in sail: — The god...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : " No more I No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent; Contract... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 340 pages
...that of the grand climacteric, when he read to his son the poem he called " Terminus," beginning : " It is time to be old, To take in sail. The God of...Came to me in his fatal rounds And said, ' No more ! ' " It was early in life to feel that the productive stage was over, but he had received warning... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 366 pages
...read to his son the poem he called " Terminus," beginning : " It is time to be old, To take in Bail. The God of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds And said, ' No more ! ' " It was early in life to feel that the productive stage was over, but he had received warning... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...(Cabot, 570), his smile was a sunbeam in his face (Cooke, 193), and his whole manner was TERMINUS.* IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god...farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament 10 To compass of a tent. There 's not enough... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 pages
...working life. He gave pathetic expression to his experience in the poem entitled " Terminus : " — " It is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said ' No more.' " way. At last, April 27, 1882, surrounded by those he loved, he was beckoned " to his vaster home."... | |
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TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract... 
