 Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot or leave it bare, When he might build him...  Self Culture - Stran 3211900Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 strani
...this span of earth we press, This speek of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus Чwist two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities...temple there, A name, that long shall hallow all its spaee, And be eaeh purer soul's high resting-plaee ! Moore's Lalla RookL Fame is the thirst of youth,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 strani
...earth we preп, This speek of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus Чwixt two boundleп seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! Would...temple there, A name, that long shall hallow all its spaee, And be eaeh purer soul's high resting-plaee ! Moore's LaUa RaM. Fame is the thirst of youth,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 624 strani
...Joanna liatllie's Constantine Paleolngut Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, This speek of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus...temple there, A name, that long shall hallow all its spaee, And be eaeh purer soul's high resting.pUee ! Moon's Lalla lioohh. Fame is the thirst of youth,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 402 strani
...he has not chosen very badly. I give them here, as I find them in his letter — " Who that surreys this span of earth we press, This speck of life in...narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The Past, the Present, two Eternities ! Would sully the bright spot, or leave it bare, When he might build him a... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 438 strani
...rare, " Ethereal virtue, which alone can breathe " Life, health, and lustre into Freedom's wreath. " Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, —...This speck of life in time's great wilderness, " This na*row isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, " The past, the future, two eternities ! — " Would sully... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1856 - 398 strani
...I must say that he has not chosen very badly. I give them here, as I find them in his letter — " Who that surveys this span of earth we press, This speck of life in Time's great wilderness, — Tln's narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The Past, the Present, two Eternities ! Would sully... | |
 | Charles Manson Taggart - 1856 - 518 strani
...? Nothing. What is " This spot of earth we press, This speck of life in time's great wilderness ? A narrow isthmus, 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities." This life is all we surely have, all we positively know. Take then from this present life, this world,... | |
 | Charles Manson Taggart - 1856 - 496 strani
...past? Nothing. Beyond this present moment, what know you of the future ? Nothing. What is "This spot of earth we press, This speck of life in time's great wilderness ? A narrow isthmus, 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities." This life is... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1857 - 434 strani
...high, rare, Ethereal virtue, which alone can breathe Life, health, and lustre into Freedom's wreath. Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, —...eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot, or leave it baie, When he might build him a proud temple there, A name, that long shall hallow all its space, And... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 strani
...forward into what would be otherwise a dark unknown, guided and cheered by a hope full of immortality." " Who that surveys this span of earth we press— This...temple there, A name that long shall hallow all its apace, And be each purer soul's bright resting-place." another life, and we sink beneath the worm,... | |
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