| CHARLES HENRY PEARSON - 1900 - 840 páginas
...the wife and children had enough to live on. Altogether he was one of the men Taylor has described— Who gifted with predominating powers Bear yet a temperate will and keep the peace. Five-and-twenty years after his death I still find myself asking if he would have approved my conduct... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 páginas
...course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter barks pushed rit of God with might unfurled The flag of Freedom...all its banded anarchs fled, Like vultures frighted passed But not by conquests in the Franc of Bruges, [for great, The sphere — the scale of circumstance... | |
| Theodore Martin - 1906 - 368 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 Lewis - 1909 - 168 páginas
...course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes founder 'd 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." If it be so, it is time biography enlarged its operations and published for us not only the piquant... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1876 - 802 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. This is very striking, whether the philosophy be accurate or not. It may reasonably be open to doubt... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1834 - 566 páginas
...course ; a thousand others Have had their fortunes foundered by a chance, Whilst lighter narks pushed past them ; to whom add A smaller tally, of the singular...and keep the peace. The world knows nothing of its urcalest men. ' Had Launoy lived, he might have passed for great, But not by conquests in the Franc... | |
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