Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,... The Pardoner's Wallet - Stran 147avtor: Samuel McChord Crothers - 1905 - 287 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Carl Schurz - 1899 - 106 strani
...Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Kepeating us by rote : For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And,...Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed, Who loved his charge, but never loved... | |
| 1865 - 834 strani
...And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old-World mould aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the...Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed, Who loved his charge, but never loved... | |
| 1903 - 912 strani
...speak of him except in the words of Lowell's great Commemoration Ode : — " For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted Weet, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. His... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1910 - 144 strani
...And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Eepeating us by rote : 160 For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from...Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. 165 How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed, Who loved his charge, but never loved... | |
| 1865 - 658 strani
...some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old World mould aeide she threw, And, chooMiig sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West,...Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed, Who loved his charge, but never loved... | |
| Sacvan Bercovitch - 1975 - 264 strani
...molds" when she formed Lincoln, wrote James Russell Lowell in his popular Ode to "our Martyr-Chief," And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, New birth of a new soil, the first American.22 Lowell meant byfirst American neither earliest nor greatest... | |
| Richard Marius - 1994 - 592 strani
...Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And,...Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed, Who loved his charge, but never loved... | |
| Merrill D. Peterson - 1995 - 493 strani
...dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating as by rote: For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from...Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. Lowell went on to evoke a man of "clear-grained human worth," for whom "outward grace is dust," and... | |
| Wilbur R. Jacobs - 1994 - 372 strani
...dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from...unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now,... | |
| Olivier Frayssé - 1994 - 268 strani
...who recognized the unique character of the sixteenth president, Nature, to create him, her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from...unexhausted West With stuff untainted shaped a hero new.4 The same spirit inspired Carl Sandburg, who was able, after years of scholarly research, to preserve... | |
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