Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,... The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Página 380por James Russell Lowell - 1879 - 422 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1887 - 380 páginas
...dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote ; For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from...Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. Here was a type of the true elder race And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face." With... | |
| Illinois State Bar Association - 1887 - 414 páginas
...Douglas, Baker, Catón, Davis, Washburn, Drummond, Browning, Trumbull, Yates, Logan, and he whom nature, "Choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted...new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God and true. * * * The kindly, earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New... | |
| Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1887 - 346 páginas
...with all the strength he needs." And what a fine tribute the poet pays to our Martyred Chief : — " Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man...worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote ; For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West,... | |
| Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1888 - 236 páginas
...things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man...worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the inexhausted West,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 páginas
...dote. And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from...shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength ot God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed. Who loved his charge,... | |
| David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 344 páginas
...Martyr-chief,2 Whom late the Nation he had led, With ashes on her head Wept with the passion of an angry grief: Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man...worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the heart Of the unexhausted West,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 300 páginas
...things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man...some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West,... | |
| Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States - 1890 - 94 páginas
...things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man...worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote ; For him her Old-World mould aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 296 páginas
...things I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man...worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West,... | |
| Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 páginas
...I turn To speak what in my heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on this world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote. And cannot make a man...some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote; For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw. And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West,... | |
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