 In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. 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;...  The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Page 382by James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 422 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1865 - 654 pages
...unfultei ing f kill And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting...of Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface ; Here was a type of the true elder nice, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. I... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 504 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting...of Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface ; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. His... | |
 | 1879 - 692 pages
...mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now. now lost in vapours blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined...also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars." How good this prairie comparison is ! And how well the last line brings out the true loftiness of what... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrnst. 5. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting...serf and peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. 6. I... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1867 - 472 pages
...supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. Nothing of Europe here, j Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any...of Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface ; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. His... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...steel to spring agaii. and thrust. 5. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting morn ward still, Ere any names of serf and peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face 6. I... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1867 - 480 pages
...perfect steel to spring again and thrust. Nothing of Europe here, . Or, then, of Europe fronting momward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface ; Here was a type of the true elder race, And o'ne of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. His... | |
 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - 1868 - 510 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust, 5. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting...serf and peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face 6. I... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1868 - 300 pages
...unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will, That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer, Oould Nature's equal scheme deface ; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 pages
...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, level-lined,...Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. I praise... | |
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