| William Lucas Collins - 1870 - 172 pagina’s
...career of victory, a warrior's death, and undying glory. Ho makes his choice as a hero should — . " One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." One fable runs that his mother, Thetis, dipped him when an infant in the river Styx, which made him... | |
| William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 218 pagina’s
...And then follows a passage which echoes the stirring lines of Scott— " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim,...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." Do not then (concludes the Stoic) take good words in your mouth, and prate before applauding citizens... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1871 - 342 pagina’s
...the war must go on, why put off longer the Declaration of Independence 1 2. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim,...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. 3. Hurrah ! the land is safe, is safe ; it rallies from the shock ! Ring round, ring round, ye merry... | |
| William Lucas Collins - 1871 - 214 pagina’s
...And then follows a passage which echoes the stirring lines of Scott — " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim,...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." Do not then (concludes the Stoic) take good words in your mouth, and prate before applauding citizens... | |
| Edward Alfred Pollard - 1871 - 936 pagina’s
...than worth the misfortunes which have marked its progress. " Sound the clarion, fill the fife ; To a sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name I " my palate receives the refreshment, to lift up my heart to God in thanks and prayer for the water... | |
| Arthur George F. Griffiths - 1873 - 330 pagina’s
...Sound the trumpet, beat the drums." Alexander the Great (stage edition). " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim,...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." SIR WALTER SCOTT. THE P. and O. steamer that was nearing Southampton at the end of a dull day in the... | |
| Edward Carey Pike - 1873 - 144 pagina’s
...a cheer where a man of different stamp would have been likely to get a broken head. CHAPTER VIII. - To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. OLD MORTALITY. STANDING one afternoon in August upon the bank of the Mersey, I watched the big ships... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1873 - 1014 pagina’s
...; and if it shortened them, let us remember Ma own immortal words, — " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, To all the sensual world proclaim — One crowded hour of glorious life la worth an age without a name." For the rest, I presume, it will be allowed that no human character,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pagina’s
...My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor. ibid. Ch. xxxiv. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim,...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Old Mortality. Ch xxxiv. /. 45 1 . Scott continued.] Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries... | |
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