 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 376 pages
...of death also in their eye. For surely, at whatever age it overtake the man, this is to die young. Death has not been suffered to take so much as an...at a bound on to the other side. The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing, when, trailing with him... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1918 - 370 pages
...of death also in their eye. For surely, at whatever age it overtake the man, this is to die young. Death has not been suffered to take so much as an...at a bound on to the other side. The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing, when, trailing with him... | |
 | Norman Duncan - 1918 - 290 pages
...words of Stevenson from his brave essay on the greatness of the stout heart bound with triple brass: "Death has not been suffered to take so much as an...the highest point of being, he passes at a bound on the other side. The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly done... | |
 | Hereward Carrington - 1918 - 388 pages
...sort of death also in their eye. For surely, at whatever age it overtakes a man, this is to die young. Death has not been suffered to take so much as an...on the highest point of being, he passes at a bound onto the other side. The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly... | |
 | 1926 - 666 pages
...grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably struggling to an end in sandy deltas? — Death has not been suffered to take so much as an illusion from his heart. In the hot-fit of life, a-lip-toe on the highest point of being, he passes it at a bound onto the other side. The noise of... | |
 | Henry Seidel Canby - 1919 - 332 pages
...sounds like — Stevenson," he said softly. " Did he write things like that — as well as stories! ' Death has not been suffered to take so much as an illusion from his heart.' Isn't that great! " Not the thought, not his own burning desire to live on the highest point of being,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 pages
...of death also in their eye. For surely, at whatever age it overtake the man, this is to die young. Death has not been suffered to take so much as an...at a bound on to the other side. The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing, when, trailing with him... | |
 | Massachusetts. Department of Mental Health - 1920 - 206 pages
...propaganda, such as engaged him up to within a few hours before his death. "In the hot fit of life, a tip toe on the highest point of being, he passes at a bound on to the other side. The noise of the mallet and chisel are scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing when, trailing with him... | |
 | 1920 - 512 pages
...of death also in their eye. For surely, at whatever age it overtake the man, this is to die young. Death has not been suffered to take so much as an illusion from his heart. In the hot-fit of life, a tiptoe on the highest point of being, he passes at a bound on to the other side. The noise of the... | |
 | Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) - 1921 - 370 pages
...of death also in their eye. For surely, at whatever age it overtake the man, this is to die young. Death has not been suffered to take so much as an illusion from his heart. . . . The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hardly done blowing,... | |
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Death has not been suffered to take so much as an illusion from his heart. In the hot-fit of life, a-tiptoe on the highest point of being, he passes at a bound on to the other side. 
