 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
 | 1901 - 960 Seiten
...heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his worldhonored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan,...moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful... | |
 | 1901 - 788 Seiten
...of the one, nature had to employ her largest old-world mold. For the other — " Her old-world molds aside she threw. And, choosing sweet clay from the...unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new." The one was of such dignity as to enkindle reverence, of sucli stateliness as to inspire awe in any... | |
 | 1901 - 458 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 molds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the inexhausted West,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1901 - 964 Seiten
...heart will beat and burn, And hang my wreath on his world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, Pw be, For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 Seiten
...and oft exprest, 'T is his at last who says it best.1 For an Autograph. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. Ode at the Harcard Commemoration, July 27, 1866. Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of... | |
 | 1903 - 480 Seiten
...helped his memory just beautifully. — Laura Gilbert Gunther. LINCOLN. For him her Old- World molds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the...stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in strength of God, and true. — Lowell. At the White House one day during the civil war, some gentlemen... | |
 | 1903 - 434 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,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 Seiten
...and oft exprest, 'T is his at last who says it best.1 For an Autograph. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote. Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 11, #** Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's... | |
 | 1903 - 440 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 bj rote : For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1904 - 916 Seiten
...the man for the occasion. What does the poet, Lowell, say? Nature, they say, doth dote, And can not make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us...unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new. When Abraham Lincoln was climbing up those pegs set in the wall in the little cabin in which he dwelt,... | |
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