| Gems - 1851 - 206 Seiten
...to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like niuflled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In...the bivouac of life, Be not like dumb driven cattle, Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant, Let the dead Past bury its dead ; Act—act in the living Present,... | |
| Frederick Walpole - 1851 - 742 Seiten
...fame. To lean upon ourselves alone, and on our own resources, is every man's best chance for that : " In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac...like dumb driven cattle ; Be a hero in the strife. " Dig up the talent ; remove its cloth ; and let us go forth to meet the future with a firm determination... | |
| Frederick Walpole - 1851 - 482 Seiten
...To lean upon ourselves alone, and on our own resources, is every man's best chance for that : P " la the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac...like dumb driven cattle ; Be a hero in the strife. " Dig up the talent ; remove its cloth ; and let us go forth to meet the future with a firm determination... | |
| 1855 - 724 Seiten
...sorrow, In our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-usy. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...Still, like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches lo the grave. Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dearl Past... | |
| Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 Seiten
...life is earnest ; And the grave is not its goal : Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken to the soul. • Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our...muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Let us, then, be up and doing, Looking to the future state ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 Seiten
...soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and -Time is...Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad fii-ld of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 Seiten
...soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting,...brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral inarches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb,... | |
| Nahum Capen - 1852 - 594 Seiten
...labors of the orator, quite content practically to apply my own advice, by MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS. " In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac...like dumb, driven cattle, — Be a hero in the strife ! " Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 802 Seiten
...sorrow, Is our being's end or way, But to live that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. ' In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac...like dumb driven cattle, Be a hero in the strife.' Nobly and sweetly have such heroic cries sounded from across tlie waters, to the thinkers and stragglers... | |
| 1852 - 588 Seiten
...way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is flecting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like...beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's brond field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle I Be a hero in the strife... | |
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