 His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind; Broad prairie rather, genial, levellined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest...  Messiah Pulpit - Page 21899Full view - About this book
 | 1872 - 810 pages
...lured by any cheat of birth, But by his clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity I His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind Thrusting...o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapcrs blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lived. Fruitful and friendly for all human-kind,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 504 pages
...deface ; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting...lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for his humankind, Yet also known to Heaven and friend with all... | |
 | 1879 - 692 pages
...not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His...o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now. now lost in vapours blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined Fruitful and friendly for all human kind,... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1868 - 300 pages
...true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. He was no lonely mountain peak of mind Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars A seamark now, now lost in vapours blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for his humankind,... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1869 - 524 pages
...choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will, That bent like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust. His...lost in vapors blind; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven, and loved of loftiest... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. nis was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to*...lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to Heaven and loved of loftiest... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent at the fall of even, Beneath the bow of summer heaven....droplet of its sparkling dew, — Joy to thee, fay level-lined. Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 pages
...not choose but trust In that sure.footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple.tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His...mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea. mark now, now lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level. lined, Fruitful and... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent d I 527 The moon on the east oriel shone Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged liars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His...lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to Heaven and loved of loftiest... | |
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