For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main... The Speaker - Página 2181925Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 502 páginas
...was surely but imperceptibly effecting itaelf in the collective mind of their fellow- . countrymen. For, while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far hack, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. Events were at hand which... | |
| Reformed Church in America. General Synod - 1877 - 624 páginas
...execution were being formed ; larger, views of social and civic responsibilities grew with the years. " For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes, silent, flooding in the main." The forces which produce a living literature are subtle and often hidden from contemporary observers.... | |
| William Pepper - 1877 - 64 páginas
...public opinion and conviction which at last attains a power that sweeps down all opposition. " Thus, while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main." I should, however, but half discharge my duty to you if I stopped with this gloomy review of the present... | |
| William Stevens Robinson - 1877 - 626 páginas
...wounds are vain : The enemy faints not, nor f uileth ; And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars: It may be, in yon...Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for yon, possess the Held." ARTHUR HUGH CLOUQH. ON Mr. Robinson's recovery, his brother, anxious for his... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1923 - 700 páginas
...struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be in yon smoke...creeks and inlets making, Comes, silent, flooding it, the main. And not by eastern windows only. When daylight conies, comes in the light; In front the... | |
| John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 páginas
...commander-in-chief, or because, amid the smoke, he can not see how things are getting on. If hopes are cheats, fears may be liars ; It may be in yon smoke concealed....now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. So, then, no man can count himself out. No man can take a furlough or apply for a discharge. Talk not... | |
| Abram Henry Herbert Orpen- Palmer - 1880 - 424 páginas
...not one spot of promise uncovered. Ere men have fully recognised its nearness it may be upon them. " For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...main. " And not by eastern windows only, When daylight copies, comes in the light ; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 páginas
...not nor faileth, And as things have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; In, may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase...tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful niche to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And... | |
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