 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
 | Philosophical Society of Aberdeen - 1910 - 346 páginas
...glorified commonsense, that wisdom " whose ways are ways of pleasantness, and all whose paths are peace." It is time to be old, -To take in sail. The God of...invent, Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent." As a bird trims her to the gale, I trim myeolf to the storm of time : I man the rudder, reef the sail,... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1910 - 358 páginas
...Emerson was sixty-three years old 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 ! ' " Dr. Chalmers was sixty-three in the year of the Disruption. In February, 1868, Disraeli succeeded... | |
 | 1915 - 488 páginas
...God help us all to kindly view The world that we are passing through! Lydia Maria Child [1802-1880] 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... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 696 páginas
...to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, 15 The youth replies. / can. TERMINUS It is time to be old, To take in sail: The...sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds 5 And said: "No more! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches and thy root. Fancy departs: no... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1913 - 494 páginas
...remede The shortness of our days, And promise, on thy Founder's truth, Long morrow to this mortal youth. 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... | |
 | Jessie Belle Rittenhouse - 1915 - 348 páginas
...Seven; But thou, meek lover of the good! Find me, and turn thy back on heaven. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 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... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 páginas
...; 60 Woe and want thou canst outsleep ; Want and woe, which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous. Terminus It is time to be old, To take in sail : —...sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, 6 And said : ' No more I No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs... | |
 | 1885 - 720 páginas
...guidance. He retired from active practice several years ago, when he had come to feel, with Emerson, "It is time to be old, To take in sail; The god of...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said, 'No more!" " • * 1 «• 576 REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. Mendota, 11l., and graduated in medinine at Rush Medical... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 páginas
...posing power to trust again! God help us all to kindly view The world that we are passing through ! 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... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 746 páginas
...last He will spell in the sculpture, "Stay." 1846. Atlantic Monthly, Dec., 1866. creep, TERMINUS 1 It is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god...departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament I0 To compass of a tent. There's not enough for this and that, Make thy option which of two; Economize... | |
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