| Edward Carey Pike - 1873 - 144 oldal
...a cheer where a man of different stamp would have been likely to get a broken head. CHAPTER VIII. - To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. OLD MORTALITY. STANDING one afternoon in August upon the bank of the Mersey, I watched the big ships... | |
| Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1873 - 324 oldal
...them learned. It is not what they profess, but what they practise, that makes them gbod. III. Loud. 2. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hbur of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. 3. Hurrah ! the land is safe, is safe; it rallies... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 oldal
...coming, ibid. Ch. xxxii. My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor. ibid. Ch. xxxiv. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Old Mortality. Ch xxxiv. /. 45 1 . Scott continued.] Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries... | |
| Alexander Mackie - 1874 - 442 oldal
...O'erboiling with a mad and sulphurous tide." What a mass of matter for thought such a sight must possess ! " One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." Dr. Cheever's account of his ascent of this volcano is deeply interesting. He says he has known seamen... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 oldal
...senses.1 ibid. Ch. xxxiv. 1 Huzzaed out of my seven senses. — The Spectator, No. 616. Nov. 5, 1774. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Old Mortality. Ch. xxxiv./. 451. Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! The Monastery.... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 oldal
...waked with notes of fire, Love more than they the British lyre ? SIR WALTER SCOTT: Lord of the Isles. Sound, sound the clarion ! fill the fife ! To all...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. SIR WALTER SCOTT : from Old Mortality. Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds In ranks and squadrons,... | |
| William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - 1875 - 286 oldal
...his deathbed, "his last moments were peaceful." On such an occasion one is tempted to think that " One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." hope of pressing one day some well-fought and hard-won field of battle, and dying with the shout of... | |
| Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 oldal
...special offices in the Church, and their affluent positions. — Dr. Stamen. HOUR.— The Worth of on One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. — Sir W. Scott. ROИ18.— The Consecration of the The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous... | |
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1876 - 622 oldal
...but the world will move, and its inhabitants must move with it. Besides, what says SIB WALTKE ? — " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." The heroes eat no lotos. Ulysses and Mr. Punch alike decline torpidity. The universe wants the mind... | |
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