 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1911 - 710 σελίδες
...long public career of this faithful servant makes us appreciate more keenly these words of Lowell : 'The longer on this earth we live And weigh the various qualities of men, * * * The more we feel the high, stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness to duty.' "In his conduct... | |
 | 1898 - 1146 σελίδες
...rests with women. If women would not wear dead birds on their hats, the birds would not be killed. Duty The longer on this earth we live And weigh the various...fitful gifts at best, of now and then — Wind-wavered copse-lights, daughters of the fen — The more we feel the high, stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness... | |
 | 1901 - 998 σελίδες
...conserves his character, perfects his scholarship, and strengthens his health. The Record of a Long Life1 " The high, stern-featured beauty Of plain devotedness...with mortal praise, But finding amplest recompense In work done squarely and unwasted days.1' THIS quotation from Lowell might well have been written... | |
 | 1875 - 780 σελίδες
...movement then Than this we fret in, he a denizen Of that ideal Rome that made a man for men. VI. 1. The longer on this earth we live And weigh the various...Steadfast and still, nor paid with mortal praise, But ftnding amplest recompense For life's ungarlandcd expense In work done squarely and unwasted days.... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 480 σελίδες
...he a denizen Of that ideal Home that made a man for men. VL i. The longer on this earth we live 285 And weigh the various qualities of men, Seeing how...fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty 290 Of plain devotedness to duty, Steadfast and still, nor paid with mortal praise, But finding amplest... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 596 σελίδες
...he a denizen Of that ideal Rome that made a man for men. Vt. I. The longer on this earth we live 285 And weigh the various qualities of men, Seeing how...fen, The more we feel the high stern-featured beauty 290 Of plain dcvoteclness to duty, Steadfast and still, nor paid with mortal praise, But finding amplest... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1879 - 592 σελίδες
...statelier movement then Thau tliis we fret in, he a denizen Of that ideal Rome that made a man for VI. THE longer on this earth we live And weigh the various qualities of men, Seeing bow most are fugitive, Or fitful gifts, at best, of now and then, Wind-wavered corpse-lights, daughters... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1879 - 584 σελίδες
...»fflcB </f Uu LUwmrtan of CongJ-e», M Wubington. 369987 TO THE HONORABLE PHILEMON BLISS, LL.D. " The longer on this earth we live, And weigh the various qualities of men, ******* The more we see the stern, high-featured beauty Of plain devotedness to duty, Steadfast and... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 σελίδες
...statelier movement then Than this we fret in, he a denizen Of that ideal Rome that made a man for men. Vi. THE longer on this earth we live And weigh the various...best, of now and then, Wind-wavered corpse-lights, danghters of the fen, The more we feel the high stemfeatured beanty Of plain devotedness to duty, Steadfast... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russel Lowell - 1891 - 560 σελίδες
...movement then Than this we fret in, he a denizen Of that ideal Rome that made a man for men. VI. 1. THE longer on this earth we live And weigh the various...corpse-lights, daughters of the fen, The more we feel the high stem-featured beauty Of plain devotedness to duty, Steadfast and still, nor paid" with mortal praise,... | |
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Steadfast and stilt, nor paid with mortal praise, But finding amplest recompense For life's ungarlanded expense In work done squarely and unwasted days. 
