 Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, How oft unwearied have we spent the nights, Till the Ledaean stars, so famed for love, Wonder'd at us from above! We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence, and...  The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 71848Full view - About this book
 | 1865 - 810 pages
...contagious sympathy. Like many past and future generations of students, we spent our days — ' In search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence and poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine.' " Some fifteen generations of young "Apostles" have passed from college into life. A few have... | |
 | william beal - 1860 - 178 pages
...persons, when in correspondence with each other on the employment of leisure hours, may say — " We Bpent them not in toys, or lust, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, — Truth, eloquence, and poesy ; Arts which are loved ; — and they my Mend were thine." And may... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - 1861 - 418 pages
...we can remember these nights without any other regret than that they can never more return ; for " We spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine. But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poesy — Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine." When the Court rose, a tipstaff told... | |
 | 1862 - 692 pages
...Ledsean stars, so famed for love, Wondered at us from above. We spent them not in toys, in lust, in wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence,...poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine." ARTICLE III. THE HYMNS OF CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT. THE name of this lady has within the last few... | |
 | 1862 - 348 pages
...years, the lines Curran once recited to an early friend, a beautiful tribute to early days : — " We spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine ; But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poesy, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine I" But the greatest incentives to practice... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1862 - 564 pages
...we can remember those nights, without any other regret than that they can never more return ; for, " We spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine ; But search of deep philosophy, "\Vit, eloquence, ami poesy; Ail. which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine." * Here, according... | |
 | Carlton Edwards - 1863 - 292 pages
...my lord, we can remember those nights with no other regret than that they can return no more, for " We spent them not in toys, or lust, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence and poesy — Arts which I loved; for they, my friend, were thine." But, my lords, to return to a subject,... | |
 | 1864 - 990 pages
...retrospect of which each might say to the other : — •• "I've spent them not on toys, or sin, or wine, • But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence,...— Arts which I loved; for they, my friend, were thine!" And yet, who that knows the better philosophy, which Cicero ко earnestly craved after, but... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1864 - 350 pages
...conversations in retrospect of which each might say to the other — " I've spent them not on toys, or lusts, or wine, But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence,...— Arts which I loved, for they, my Friend, were thine ! " The neighbourhood of Tusculum was a favourite resort of the old Eoman nobility.1 On the declivity... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...first garden made, and the first city Cain.f The Garden. Essag v. We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence,...poetry ; Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine. On the Dealh of Mr. William Harueg. * Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafe/h, come Habraham,... | |
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