 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,...  Examination Papers: Moderations - Seite 37von University of Oxford - 1879Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 680 Seiten
...heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan,...us by rote: For him her Old-World moulds aside she throw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breust Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped... | |
 | 1899 - 408 Seiten
...granted equality of opportunity to all by reaching the highest possible station. In him "her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from...unexhausted West With stuff untainted shaped a hero new. Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame. New birth of our new soil, the first American." Underlying... | |
 | Jennie Ellis Keysor - 1895 - 202 Seiten
...First American " develop from a poverty-stricken child of the backwoods ? " 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,... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1895 - 372 Seiten
...needs." And what a fine tribute the poet pays to our Martyred Chief : — " 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,... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1896 - 344 Seiten
...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 Save on some worn-out plan,...aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the heart Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1896 - 278 Seiten
...dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating as by rote ; For him, the Old- World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from...unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero ne\v, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true." " How was he different from anybody else ?... | |
 | 1896 - 532 Seiten
...heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. 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,... | |
 | 1899 - 642 Seiten
...tribute, I think that has ever been paid to this greatest of men : — 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,... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...one, and one of good. t. HOMEB— The Iliad. Bk. 24. L. 663. Pope's trang. Nature they say, doth dote. ;1 u. LOWELL — Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July «, 1S6S. VI. Open, ye heavens, your living doors... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 434 Seiten
...clear-grained human worth," the new America found, at last, a true exponent. " Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan,...unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new." This westward expansion of the people, this subduing and possessing the vast stretch of savage continent,... | |
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