 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...coming. ibid. Chapter nan. My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor. md. Chapterxxxiv. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the...of glorious life, Is worth an age without a name. Old Mortality. Vol. ii. Chapter xxi. Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! The Monastery.... | |
 | 1869 - 254 pages
...wood ? .... Is it worth while to guess at all this ? Owen Meredith. LYRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES. SOUND, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Sir Walter Scott. EPIPSYCHIDION. Emily, A ship is floating in the harbour now, A wind is hovering o'er... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1870 - 172 pages
...career of victory, a warrior's death, and undying glory. Ho makes his choice as a hero should — . " One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." One fable runs that his mother, Thetis, dipped him when an infant in the river Styx, which made him... | |
 | William Dyson Wood - 1870 - 27 pages
...pleasure and even health, and how at last in the height of his severe enthusiasm he persuades himself that "one crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name ! " With all his enthusiasm, however, he is sometimes tempted by the sense of weariness and the attraction... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 214 pages
...lifetime of inglorious ease. And then follows a passage which echoes the stirring lines of Scott — " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." Do not then (concludes the Stoic) take good words in your mouth, and prate before applauding citizens... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1871 - 342 pages
...fight it through. And since the war must go on, why put off longer the Declaration of Independence 1 2. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. 3. Hurrah ! the land is safe, is safe ; it rallies from the shock ! Ring round, ring round, ye merry... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 218 pages
...lifetime of inglorious ease. And then follows a passage which echoes the stirring lines of Scott— " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." Do not then (concludes the Stoic) take good words in your mouth, and prate before applauding citizens... | |
 | Edward Alfred Pollard - 1871 - 936 pages
...than worth the misfortunes which have marked its progress. " Sound the clarion, fill the fife ; To a sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name I " my palate receives the refreshment, to lift up my heart to God in thanks and prayer for the water... | |
 | Arthur George F. Griffiths - 1873 - 330 pages
...the conquering hero comes, Sound the trumpet, beat the drums." Alexander the Great (stage edition). " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." SIR WALTER SCOTT. THE P. and O. steamer that was nearing Southampton at the end of a dull day in the... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1873 - 1014 pages
...martyrdom lasted with his days ; and if it shortened them, let us remember Ma own immortal words, — " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, To all the...world proclaim — One crowded hour of glorious life la worth an age without a name." For the rest, I presume, it will be allowed that no human character,... | |
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. 
