 ... of pain, care, misery, grows heavier year by year. At length ambition is dead; pride is dead; vanity is dead; longing for release is in their place. It comes at last — the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them — and they vanish from a world...  The Atlantic Monthly - Seite 4561920Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Harry Emerson Fosdick - 1923 - 232 Seiten
...earth ever had for them — and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, where they achieved nothing, where they were a mistake and a...which will lament them a day and forget them forever." Endeavoring to explain these words upon the lips of such a man as Mark Twain, one cannot say that Mark... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1924 - 396 Seiten
...earth ever had for them — and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence; where they achieved nothing; where they were a mistake and a...which will lament them a day and forget them forever. Then another myriad takes their place, and copies all they did, and goes along the same profitless... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1925 - 400 Seiten
...earth ever had for them — and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence ; where they achieved nothing; where they were a mistake and a...which will lament them a day and forget them forever. Then another myriad takes their place, and copies all they did, and goes along the same profitless... | |
 | James Martin Gillis - 1925 - 224 Seiten
...Longing for release is in its place. It comes at last, the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them. They vanish from a world where they were of no consequence,...foolishness, where they have left no sign that they ever existed, a world which will lament them a day, and forget them forever." For sheer eloquence,... | |
 | 1926 - 410 Seiten
...earth ever had for them —and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, where they achieved nothing, where they were a mistake and a...world which will lament them a day and forget them for ever." MARK TWAIN. I92 THE CHILD. A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO CHILD WELFARE. No. 7. APRIL, I926.... | |
 | 2003 - 248 Seiten
...from earthly struggles : "... they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence; where they achieved nothing; where they were a mistake and a...foolishness; where they have left no sign that they had existed-a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever. " wfw woeix 1. idyllic /... | |
 | Russell Dilday - 2007 - 164 Seiten
...earth ever had for them — and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, where they achieved nothing, where they were a mistake and a failure and a foolishness: where they left no sign that they ever existed — a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.3... | |
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