 | James Hain Friswell - 1870 - 428 páginas
...own times has told us to — " Compute the chances, And deem there's ne'er a one in dangerous times Who wins the race of glory, but than him A thousand...peace. The world knows nothing of its GREATEST MEN."* There is consoling truth in this. Even our own patentees and great inventors are not in all cases originators.f... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1870 - 524 páginas
...course : a thousand others have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, while lighter barks pushed past them; to whom add a smaller tally, of the singular...powers, bear yet a temperate will and keep the peace. H. TAYLOR 538« QUEEN KATHARINE— CARDINAL WOLSEY QK Would I had never trod this English earth, or... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 988 páginas
...course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed past them ; to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular...peace. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. H. TAYLOR.— Philip Van ArtmU«. All my life long, I have beheld with most respect the man Who knew... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1872 - 616 páginas
...certainly one of ' the singular few,' of whom Van Artevelde, in Sir Henry Taylor's drama speaks, — ' Who, gifted with predominating powers, Bear yet a temperate will, and keep the peace.' And if in any case the truth is to be admitted of the seeming paradox, to which these lines are the... | |
 | 1872 - 614 páginas
...certainly one of ' the singular few,' of whom Van Artevelde, in Sir Henry Taylor's drama speaks, — ' Who, gifted with predominating powers, Bear yet a temperate will, and keep the peace.' And if in any case the truth is to be admitted of the seeming paradox, to which these lines are the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1872 - 984 páginas
...chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed past thi'in; to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular tew, Who, gifted with predominating powers, Bear yet a temperate will and keep the pence. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. И. TiTLoe.— Philip Van Arter«ld«. All my life... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - 1877 - 240 páginas
...gloriously endowed Have fallen upon the course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks push'd past them...peace. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. 8. O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, Light, the god Of this... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - 1877 - 494 páginas
...endowed Have fallen upon the course ; a thousand more Have had their fortunes by haphazard wreck'd Whilst lighter barks push'd past them ; to whom add...peace. The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Fatiier John. Had Launoy lived he might have passed for great, An ardent soul was Launoy's, and his... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 páginas
...course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, While lighter barks pushed 0 ! ARTEVELDE'S SOLILOQUY. FRO* " PHILIP VAX ARTEVELDE." To bring a cloud upon the summer day Of one... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 páginas
...course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes founded by a chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed past them ; to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular few, r ENGLISH LITERATURE. 191 Who, gifted with predominating powers. Bear yet я temperate will, and keep... | |
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Who wins the race of glory, but than him A thousand men more gloriously endowed Have fallen upon the course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks... 
