 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 - 538 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1866 - 570 pages
...Till the Ledffian stars, so famed for love, Wondered at us from above. We spent them not in toys, in lust, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit,...poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine. memory of a young friend, but in his EpitapJiium Damonis, to that of Deodatus; has poured forth... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1867 - 494 pages
...Till the Ledsean stars, so famed for love, Wonder' d at us from above. We spent them not in toys, in lust, or wine ; But search of deep philosophy, Wit,...poetry ; Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine. Touched by a personal knowledge of this union of genius * La Vie de Pierre Mignard, par L'Abbe... | |
 | Scottish Rite (Masonic order). Supreme Council for the Northern Jurisdiction - 1867 - 666 pages
...in these Masonic homes, and in Masonic intercourse, have not been idle ones. " They were not spent in toys, or lust, or wine ; But search of deep philosophy, Wit, truth, and poesy ; — Arts which I loved ; for they, my friend, were thine." Accept, Most Puissant... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...for ever, everywhere his place. Friendship in Absence. We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine j But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and...poetry ; Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine. On the Death, of Mr. William Hanty. His faitA, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong ;... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 pages
...we can remember those nights without any other vegret 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 poosy; Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine." * Here, according to the original report,... | |
 | Charles A. Phelps - 1868 - 386 pages
...Curran so touchingly recalled to Lord Avonmore their early days and nights of study together : — " We spent them not in toys or lust or wine, But search of deep philosophy." I In July, 18-13, he entered the United-States army as a brevet second lieutenant in the fourth regiment... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...garden made, and the first city Cain.* . The Garden. Essay 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 Death of Mr. William Harvey. The thirsty earth soaks up the rain And drinks and gapes... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1869 - 584 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, and Poetry — Arts which I loved, for they, niy friend, were thine '. " The neighbourhood of Tusculum was a favourite resort of the old Roman nobility.1... | |
 | 1870 - 644 pages
...QUOTATION WANTED. — Where do the following lines come from ? — " We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence,...— Arts which I loved ; for they, my friend, were thine." C. [These lines are by Abraham Cowley, " On the Death of Sir. W. Harvey."] THE KINGDOM OF TZOBAH.... | |
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