| William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 páginas
...miserable by some equally short-lived disappointment. But our energy and our dependence are both in vain. The stream bears us on, and our joys and our griefs...left behind us ; we may be shipwrecked, but we cannot anchor ; our voyage may be hastened, but it cannot be delayed ; whither rough or smooth, the river... | |
| Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 páginas
...miserable by equally short-lived disappointment. But our energy and our dependence are both in vain. — The stream bears us on, and our joys and our griefs are alike ten behind us ; we may be shipwrecked but we cannot anchor ; our voyage may be hastened but it cannot... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1832 - 338 páginas
...picture of enjoyment and industry passing before us;—we are excited by some short-lived disappointment. The stream bears us on, and our joys and our griefs...smooth, the river hastens towards its home, till the roar of the ocean is in our ears, and the tossing of its waves is beneath our feet, and the land lessens... | |
| 1835 - 334 páginas
...picture of enjoyment and industry passing before us ; we are excited by some short-lived disappointment. The stream bears us on, and our joys and our griefs...smooth, the river hastens towards its home, till the roar of the ocean is in our ears, and the tossing of its waves is beneath our feet, and the land lessens... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1837 - 644 páginas
...association in my mind, at the moment, with that eloquent comparison of human life to a river, by HEBER : ' The stream bears us on, and our joys and our griefs...left behind us. We may be shipwrecked, but we cannot anchor ; we may be hastened, but we cannot be delayed. Whether rough or smooth, the river sweeps toward... | |
| 1838 - 434 páginas
...be* hind us; and we may be shipwrecked, but we ; cannot anchor; our voyage may be hastened, •but cannot be delayed; whether rough or \ smooth, the river hastens towards its home, I ill the roaring of the ocean is in our ears, and the tossing of its waves are beneath our keel, and... | |
| J. David Parkes - 1839 - 222 páginas
...are left behind us. We may be shipwrecked, but we cannot anchor; our voyage may be hastened, but it cannot be delayed; whether rough or smooth the river...towards its home, till the roaring of the ocean is hi our ears, and the tossing of its waves is beneath our keel, and the land lessens from our eyes,... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1841 - 576 páginas
...by some equall y short-] ived disappoin tment. But our energy and our dependence are both in fain. The stream bears us on, and our joys and our griefs...left behind us. We may be shipwrecked, but we cannot anchor; our voyage may be hastened but cannot be delayed. Whether rough or smooth, the river hastens... | |
| 1835 - 638 páginas
...miserable by some equally short-lived disappointment. But our energy and our dependence are hoth vain. The stream bears us on, and our joys and our griefs...left behind us; we may be shipwrecked, but we cannot anchor ; our voyage must be hastened, but it cannot be delayed; whether rough or smooth, the river... | |
| 1868
...deeper flood, amid objects more striking and magnificent. The stream bears us on, and our joys and griefs are alike left behind us. We may be shipwrecked,...delayed ; whether rough or smooth, the river hastens to its home, till the roar of the ocean is in our ears, acd the tossing of the waves is beneati our... | |
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