 | Alexander Mackie - 1874 - 442 pagina’s
...O'erboiling with a mad and sulphurous tide." What a mass of matter for thought such a sight must possess ! " One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." Dr. Cheever's account of his ascent of this volcano is deeply interesting. He says he has known seamen... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pagina’s
...Love more than they the British lyre ? SIR WALTER SCOTT: Lord of the Isles. Sound, sound the clarion ! fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim,...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. SIR WALTER SCOTT : from Old Mortality. Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds In ranks and squadrons,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pagina’s
...Huzzaed out of my seven senses. — The Spectator, No. 616. Nov. 5, 1774. 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./. 451. Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! The Monastery.... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pagina’s
...special offices in the Church, and their affluent positions. — Dr. Stamen. HOUR.— The Worth of on One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. — Sir W. Scott. ROИ18.— The Consecration of the The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous... | |
 | William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - 1875 - 286 pagina’s
...his deathbed, "his last moments were peaceful." On such an occasion one is tempted to think that " One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." hope of pressing one day some well-fought and hard-won field of battle, and dying with the shout of... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1876 - 622 pagina’s
...its inhabitants must move with it. Besides, what says SIB WALTKE ? — " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim,...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." The heroes eat no lotos. Ulysses and Mr. Punch alike decline torpidity. The universe wants the mind... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pagina’s
...still more glowing and eloquent, has Heber embodied the same idea : " Swell, swell the bugle ; sound the fife ; To all the sensual world proclaim — One...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." RUDDY DROPS. Gray has a well-known line : — " Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart," which... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 pagina’s
...Her quiet eyelids closed ; she had Glorious L{/e.] CLXXV1L Sound, sound the clarion ! fill the fifel To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. SCOTT Death (of Mrs. Lowell).] CLXXVIIL Then fell upon-the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those... | |
 | 1876 - 806 pagina’s
...country — in- "harassing" legislation, as it was called — which alienated the constituencies ; but "One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. " From the pride and pleasure with which he surveyed this prospect, he passed, by an easy and rapid... | |
 | Homer, William Lucas Collins - 1876 - 172 pagina’s
...career 17 of victory, a warrior's death, and undying glory. He 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... | |
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. 
