 CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty...  The Arena - Page 1361897Full view - About this book
 | 1905 - 566 pages
...matters of public importance with such shrewdness, vigor, and breadth of view, as to cause one to marvel: "How far the Gulf stream of our youth may flow Into...regions of our lives, Where little else than life survives." I have had the opportunity to contrast his strength and soundness of intellect with some... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1875 - 170 pages
...Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales;...These are indeed exceptions; but they show How far the gulf.stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1875 - 170 pages
...Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales...are indeed exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life... | |
 | 1875 - 944 pages
...Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Talee; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust...These are indeed exceptions; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life... | |
 | Connecticut Medical Society - 1876 - 818 pages
...rule, and it will not be said as now, "These are indeed exceptions ; but they showHow far the gnlf stream of our youth may flow Into the Arctic regions...of our lives, . Where little else than life itself surviyes." The questions for the year and a synopsis of answers and statement of cases are here appended... | |
 | 1877 - 1014 pages
...ask and expect, a continuance of your eminent services ; for, as our gifted Longfellow declared : ' ' Cato learned Greek at eighty, Sophocles Wrote his...last, Completed Faust when eighty years were past." And now as we take your hand in ours, with compliment and gratitude, and with the same unanimity as... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 400 pages
...Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. stood. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales;...are indeed exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 634 pages
...Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales...are, indeed, exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may How Into the Arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 218 pages
...Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales...are indeed exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 442 pages
...Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales...are indeed .exceptions ; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life... | |
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