 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 968 pages
...earlier up: Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Decpi-r ami older seemed his eye; And matched his sutYcrancc sublime The taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more soft than rain Drought the Age of Gold again: His action won such reverence sweet As hid till measure Of the MERLIN... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...which the world exists to realise, will be the transformation of genius into practical power. CHARACTER The sun set ; but set not his hope : Stars rose ;...such reverence sweet, As hid all measure of the feat. Work of his hand He nor commends nor grieves ; Pleads for itself the fact ; As unrepenting Nature leaves... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1901 - 964 pages
...speech refrained, Nobility more nobly to repay ? O, be my friend, and teach me to be thine ! CHARACTER K"H MERLIN THY trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 386 pages
...world exists to realize will be the transformation of genius into practical power. ' Ill CHARACTER THE sun set ; but set not his hope: Stars rose ; his...such reverence sweet, As hid all measure of the feat. Work of his hand He nor commends nor grieves: Pleads for itself the fact; As unrepenting Nature leaves... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 382 pages
...world exists to realize will be the transformation of genius into practical power. 1 Ill CHARACTER THE sun set ; but set not his hope: Stars rose ; his...taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more soft than raic Brought the Age of Gold again: His action won such reverence sweet, As hid all measure of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 376 pages
...the world exists to realize will be the transformation of genius into practical power.1 Ill CHARACTER THE sun set ; but set not his hope: Stars rose ; his...taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more soft than raia Brought the Age of Gold again: His action won such reverence sweet, As hid all measure of the... | |
 | Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York - 1903 - 348 pages
...His purpose was fixed. No mischance of fortune could swerve that inflexible and irrefragable will. " The sun set ; but set not his hope ; Stars rose ;...his sufferance sublime — The taciturnity of time." My father, when I was a boy, often told me, with a breaking voice, the story of that night, as his... | |
 | Clara Bancroft Beatley - 1903 - 224 pages
...a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Eight onward. To Cyriac Skinner. JOHH MILTON. The sun set, but set not his hope : Stars rose ; his faith was earlier up. Character. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. XIII. THE HOPE THAT SAVES. Prophetic Hope, thy fine discourse Foretold... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pages
...after a short illness. His life, brave, serene and happy, was in exact accord with his words : — The sun set, but set not his hope ; Stars rose, his faith was earlier up. EWE strength, which had begun to fail. A friend carried him with a pleasure party to California for... | |
 | 1903 - 772 pages
...each other and should be read together. It was as a poet that he would have wished to be remembered. "The sun set, but set not his hope. Stars rose ; his faith was earlier up." An Estimate of Emerson There are, as Arnold has pointed out, three estimates of the worth of any poet:... | |
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CHARACTER The sun set; but set not his hope: Stars rose; his faith was earlier up: Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye: And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought... 
