 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
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 strani
...smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. Trjilus attd Cre stuta, Act lit. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE. THE PRESENT. This narrow isthmus "twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! ii>~ RookM : Tlu Veiled Prof net of Knorassan. T. MOORE. Lo ! on a narrow neck of land, Twixt two... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1909 - 842 strani
...the poet was not a prophet — we sometimes doubt it when we look at the canal — when he said: " This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, — two eternities! " Brother Gorgas, we will relieve you from a speech if you will kindly stand up and let us look at... | |
 | United States. Congress House - 1938 - 76 strani
...possess us, 111 or good — Whatever comes, must go. And so today those of us who are still standing on this "narrow isthmus twixt two boundless seas"; the past, the future; two eternities, are living again those happy days of [16] friendship, association, and fellowship, in the land of yesterday... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1938 - 184 strani
...possess us. 111 or good — Whatever comes, must go. And so today those of us who are still standing on this "narrow isthmus twixt two boundless seas"; the past, the future; two eternities, are living again those happy days of friendship, association, and fellowship, in the land of yesterday... | |
 | United States. 75th Cong., 3d sess., 1938. House, United States. Congress House - 1938 - 84 strani
...possess us, ill or good — Whatever comes, must go. And so today those of us who are still standing on this "narrow isthmus twixt two boundless seas"; the past, the future; two eternities, are living again those happy days of friendship, association, and fellowship, in the land of yesterday... | |
 | Marc R. Matrana - 2005 - 210 strani
...plantation breakfast, just as it was done two hundred years ago. CHAPTER TWELVE Future of the Past This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, — two eternities! -THOMAS MOORE, Lalla Rookh. The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan Time past and time future What might have... | |
 | Rex Hickox - 2006 - 140 strani
...back to cancel half a line, nor will your tears wash out a word of it. Omar Khayam George Bernard Shaw This speck of life in time's great wilderness; this...narrow isthmus "twixt" two boundless seas, the past and the future, two extremities! Thomas Moore Every day is a vessel into which very much may be poured... | |
 | 1898 - 730 strani
...lend its radiance to all the vicissitudes of life and light up the dark valley of the shadow of death. "Who that surveys this span of earth we press, This...Time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two narrow seas, The past, the future — two eternities, Would sully the bright spot, or leave it bare.... | |
 | 1879 - 612 strani
...supple figure. She did not resist. She did not remember. All she realised was the delicious present. ' This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas. The past, the future, two eternities.' ' Can you wonder I am anxious about you, and jealous of you, my beauty?' he asked, carried away by... | |
 | 1911 - 494 strani
...SPENCER. "While memory watches o'er the sad review Of joys that faded like the morning dew." — CAMPBELL. "This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas: The past, the future — two eternities." — MOORE. "When spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soul." — HEBER. Opportunity is... | |
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