 TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract...  Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... - Página 186de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 340 páginas
...that of the grand climacteric, when he read to his son the poem he called " Terminus," beginning : " It is time to be old, To take in sail. The God of...Came to me in his fatal rounds And said, ' No more ! ' " It was early in life to feel that the productive stage was over, but he had received warning... | |
 | Frances Mary Peard - 1892 - 304 páginas
...our years, long that we had given a swifter and more generous answer. CHAPTER XTTT. FOB HILVARDINE. "It is time to be old, To take in sail:— The god...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said, 'No more!'" EMEKSON. AFTER all, the Sandpoort party did not remain long absent. Hilvardine was surprised one day... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 362 páginas
...that of the grand climacteric, when he read to his son the poem he called " Terminus," beginning : "It is time to be old, To take in sail. The God of...Came to me in his fatal rounds And said, 'No more! '" It was early in life to feel that the productive stage was over, but he had received warning from... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 366 páginas
...read to his son the poem he called " Terminus," beginning : " It is time to be old, To take in Bail. The God of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds And said, ' No more ! ' " It was early in life to feel that the productive stage was over, but he had received warning... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 340 páginas
...wisdom is, Thy thrift, the sleep of cares; For a proud idleness like this Crowns all thy mean affairs. TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...root. Fancy departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmamsnt To compass of a tent. There's not enough for this and that, Make thy option which of two;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 356 páginas
...wisdom is, Thy thrift, the sleep of cares; For a proud idleness like this Crowns all thy mean affairs. TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail: —...invent ; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. There's not enough for this and that, Make thy option which of two; Economize the failing river, Not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 352 páginas
...wisdom is, Thy thrift, the sleep of cares; For a proud idleness like this Crowns all thy mean affairs. TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...invent ; Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. There's not enough for this and that, Make thy option which of two; Economize the failing river, Not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 páginas
...great charm (Cabot, 570), his smile was a sunbeam in his face (Cooke, 193), and his whole manner was TERMINUS.* IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament 10 To compass of a tent. There 's not enough for this and that, Make thy option which of two ; Economize... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 páginas
...the limit of his working life. He gave pathetic expression to his experience in the poem entitled " Terminus : " — " It is time to be old, To take in...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said ' No more.' " way. At last, April 27, 1882, surrounded by those he loved, he was beckoned " to his vaster home."... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 páginas
...great charm (Cabot, 570), his smile was a sunbeam in his face (Cooke, 193), and his whole manner was TERMINUS.* IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, 5 And said : " No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs... | |
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