 | Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1907 - 150 pages
...tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand (Edipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his...nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are indeed... | |
 | 1907 - 656 pages
...his compeers When each had numbered more than four score years ; And Theophrastus at four score years and ten Had but begun his characters of men, Chaucer...nightingales At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales: Goethe at Weimar toiling to the east Completed Faust when eighty years were passed. These are, indeed,... | |
 | 1908 - 716 pages
...prize of verse from his compeers, \Vhen each had numbered more than fourscore years; And Theophrasttis at fourscore and ten Had but begun his "Characters...nightingales, At sixty wrote the "Canterbury Tales." Goethe at Wiemar, toiling to the last. Completed "Faust" when eighty years were past. What, then ?... | |
 | Edgar Truman Brackett - 1908 - 338 pages
...tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand Oedipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his...When each had numbered more than fourscore years, The Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had begun his Characters of Men; Chaucer, at Woodstock with... | |
 | United States. 60th Congress, 2d sess., 1908-1909 - 1909 - 192 pages
...no longer day. The night has not yet come; we are not quite cut off from labor by the failing light. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are indeed... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland - 1910 - 128 pages
...a poem composed in his old age: " Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sophocles Wrote his grand Aedipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers When each had numbered more than four score years. And Theophrastus at four score and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men; Chaucer,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1911 - 224 pages
...from his compeers, When each had numbered more than four score years, And Theophrastus, at four score and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer,...nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are indeed... | |
 | Ramananda Chatterjee - 1911 - 778 pages
...composed in his own old age : — "Cato learned Greek at eighty ; Sophocles Wrote his grand Aedipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers , When each had numbered more than four score years. And Theophraslus at four score and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men ; Chaucer,... | |
 | Irving King - 1912 - 456 pages
...tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty, Sophocles Wrote his grand (Edipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his...years ; And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had begun his ' Characters of Men' Chaucer, at Woodstock, with the nightingales, At^ixty wrote. the 'Canterbury... | |
 | Irving King - 1912 - 460 pages
...tired heart shall cease to palpitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty, Sophocles Wrote his grand (Edipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his...years ; And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had begun his ' Characters of Men' Chaucer, at Woodstock, with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the ' Canterbury... | |
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CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty... 
