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 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 pages
...something, would we but begin ; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. BIRDS OF PASSAGE. FLIGHT THE FOURTH. CHARLES SUMNER. GARLANDS upon his grave. And flowers upon his... | |
 | Education - 1890 - 578 pages
...mental growih as well — " Kor age is opportunity no less Than youth it/-elf, though in another drct-s; And, as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by d;iy." Of this one thing we may be firmly assured, that much of our social standing hereafter will... | |
 | Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes - Agriculture - 1888 - 894 pages
...else than life itself survives. For age is opportunity no less Than growth ¡t«)!f, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day. TOBACCO CULTURE. BY LEVI [Read at Stoughton Institute, Jannary 2-3.] This is a subject that is out... | |
 | James Grant Wilson, John Fiske - America - 1888 - 836 pages
...the characteristic verse — " For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." On his seventy-fourth birthday, 27 Feb., 1881, he wrote in his diary : •• I am surrounded by roses... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1888 - 476 pages
...something, would we but begin; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. CHAPTER IV. EDGAR ALLAN POE. No book in my library contains a more interesting and suggestive portrait... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1888 - 952 pages
...fish when he takes It from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. As the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Longfellow. Great thoughts are our most precious and abiding treasures, and they should be eagerly... | |
 | 1888 - 68 pages
...of, perhaps, only reflected light, would give them back to the world fearlessly and clearly, for : " As the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." II. There is, at present, a problem, absorbing and involving all others, as old as man, yet now assuming... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - Readers - 1881 - 220 pages
...oldest tree some fruit may bear. For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress ; And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day. LONGFELLOW. REST. MY feet are wearied and my hands are tired, My soul oppressed ; And with desire have... | |
 | Charles Northend - Maxims - 1890 - 224 pages
...something, would we but begin; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. HW Longfellow, Maine, 1807—. 6O. Good Counsel. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned... | |
 | William Winter - 1890 - 86 pages
...For age is opportunity, no less Than youth itself, though in another dress ; And, as the lessening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." Formal but not severe, stately without pomp, dignified without severity, formidable in its self-reliance... | |
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