| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...betimes, Whose story is a fragment, known to few. Then comes the man who has the luck to live, And he's a prodigy. Compute the chances, And deem there's ne'er...but than him A thousand men more gloriously endowed BV<J-\-' •; ._ Have fallen upon the course; a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1835 - 552 páginas
...betimes, Whose story is a fragment, known to few. Then comes the man who has the luck to lire, And he's a prodigy. Compute the chances, And deem there's ne'er...but than him A thousand men more gloriously endowed Нaте fallen upon the course; a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst... | |
| Plantagenet - 1835 - 950 páginas
...aristocratic shadow. CHAPTER IV. Compute the chances And doom there's ne'er n one in dangerous times \\ ho wins the race of glory, but than him A thousand men...endowed Have fallen upon the course ; a thousand others Ilnvo had their fortunes foundered by a chance. Whilst lighter barks pushed past them Philip Van Artevttde.... | |
| THE EDINBURGH REVIEW - 1835 - 572 páginas
...betimes, Whose story is a fragment known to few. Then comes the man who has the luck to live, And he's a prodigy. Compute the chances, And deem there's ne'er a one in dangerous tunas Who wini the race of glory, but than him A thousand men more gloriously endowed Have fallen upon... | |
| 1839 - 526 páginas
...pioneered his path, and made straight for him a highway, with sweat and toil, perished unregarded. "Compute the chances, And deem there's ne'er a one...more gloriously endowed Have fallen upon the course." Thus is the triumph of one man caused by the unrequited toils and unheeded sacrifice of a thousand... | |
| 1852 - 638 páginas
...comes the man who has the luck to live, And he 'aa prodigy. Compute the chances, And deem there 'л ne'er a one in dangerous times Who wins the race of...thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by n chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed past them; to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular few Who,... | |
| 1866 - 956 páginas
...in d.mgerous tiinei Who wins the race of glory, but than he A thousand men more gloriously endow'd Have fallen upon the course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes founder'd by a chance, Whilst lighter barks push'd past" them ; to whom add A smaller tally, of the... | |
| Douglas Jerrold - 1845 - 634 páginas
...perished in the revolutionary struggle : — — — — there is not one in dangerous times Who runs the race of glory, but than him A thousand men more...thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chalice, Whilst lighter barks pushed by them. * * * * * * The world knows nothing of its greatest men.... | |
| Douglas Jerrold - 1845 - 606 páginas
...Napoleon perished in the revolutionary straggle : — there is not one in dangeraus times Who runs the race of glory, but than him A thousand men more...course : a thousand others Have had their fortunes foumlorc d hy a chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed by the-iu. * * * * ' * * The world knows nothing... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 páginas
...comes the man who has the luck to live, And he's a prodigy. Compute the chances, And deem there's ne'er one in dangerous times Who wins the race of glory, but than him A thousand men more gloriously endow'd Have fallen upon the course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes founder'd by a chance,... | |
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