 | 1905 - 566 pages
...towns, and cities, and for all that belongs to the progressing civilization of our AngloSaxon people, "The heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time." CHRONOLOGIC SUMMARY. The following summary of the dates and events noted in the foregoing pages will... | |
 | 1872 - 596 pages
...those which are the most perfect instruments for the exercise of the highest and noblest functions, " Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains," is good physiology as well as good poetry. "Now the function of individual nerves is very nearly a... | |
 | Willis Brewer - 1872 - 726 pages
...her prosperity and power. And the sun of civilization does not stand still. Alabama is truly ' • The heir of all the ages ; in the foremost files of time." What has been accomplished is only an earnest of what is to be done. The future of the State is bright... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 314 pages
...I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. 7, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains,...heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 532 pages
...vacant of our glorious gains, Like a boast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lo»wer pains I Mated with a squalid savage- -what to me were sun...heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1873 - 350 pages
...lower pleasnres, like a heast with lower paias ! Mated with a sqnalid savage— what to me were snn or clime? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost nies of time— I that rather held it hetter men ehonld perish one hy one, Than that earth shonld stand... | |
 | Henry Bleckly - 1873 - 172 pages
...for it must have consisted in the adjustment of inner relations to external circumstances. Man — " the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time," — is poorly represented in the person of his very remote ancestor ; and what he has become now, why... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 1867 - 832 pages
..." Where they ' whistle back the parrot's call, and leap the rainbows of the brooks,' " said I. " ' Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains,' " said Charley. " ' Where all the prospect pleases,' " said I. " ' And only man is vile,' " said Charley.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 584 pages
...I know my words are wild, But I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. I to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains,...heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...with the process of the suns. Ibid. I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. ibid. I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. ibid. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. ibid. 1 Nessun maggior dolore... | |
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I, to herd with narrow foreheads, vacant of our glorious gains, Like a beast with lower pleasures, like a beast with lower pains! Mated with a squalid savage— what to me were sun or clime? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time... 
