 TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root.  The Stoddard Library: Eliot-Gladstone - Seite 55von John Lawson Stoddard - 1913Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Bigelow - 1913 - 632 Seiten
...private approbation of friends and the public sanction become most desirable. The God Terminus says: It is time to be old, To take in sail; The God of Bounds Came to me in his rounds And said: "No more! No farther spread Thy branches or thy roof. " Ever yours... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Aberdeen - 1910 - 346 Seiten
...glorified commonsense, that wisdom " whose ways are ways of pleasantness, and all whose paths are peace." It is time to be old, -To take in sail. The God of...invent, Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent." As a bird trims her to the gale, I trim myeolf to the storm of time : I man the rudder, reef the sail,... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1910 - 358 Seiten
...Emerson was sixty-three years old when he read to his son the poem he called " Terminus," beginning : " It is time to be old, To take in sail. The God of...Came to me in his fatal rounds And said, ' No more ! ' " Dr. Chalmers was sixty-three in the year of the Disruption. In February, 1868, Disraeli succeeded... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1912 - 696 Seiten
...to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, 15 The youth replies. / can. TERMINUS It is time to be old, To take in sail: The...sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds 5 And said: "No more! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches and thy root. Fancy departs: no... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1915 - 680 Seiten
...; 60 Woe and want thou canst outsleep ; Want and woe, which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous. Terminus It is time to be old, To take in sail : —...sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, 6 And said : ' No more I No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs... | |
 | 1885 - 720 Seiten
...guidance. He retired from active practice several years ago, when he had come to feel, with Emerson, "It is time to be old, To take in sail; The god of...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said, 'No more!" " • * 1 «• 576 REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. Mendota, 11l., and graduated in medinine at Rush Medical... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 746 Seiten
...last He will spell in the sculpture, "Stay." 1846. Atlantic Monthly, Dec., 1866. creep, TERMINUS 1 It is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god...departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament I0 To compass of a tent. There's not enough for this and that, Make thy option which of two; Economize... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 748 Seiten
...sculpture, "Stay." 1846. Atlantic Monthly, Dec., 1866. TERMINUS i • It is time to be old, To tal^e in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas...departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament I0 To compass of a tent. There's not enough for this and that, Make thy option which of two; Economize... | |
 | 1867 - 856 Seiten
...North Village ; and as for Dave, he and I have struck ile. I 'm going out to look at our property now." TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...to me in his fatal rounds, And said, " No more ! No further spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root ; Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 Seiten
...know, That in the wild turmoil, 35 Horsed on the Proteus, Thou ridest to power, And to endurance. 1860 TERMINUS It is time to be old, To take in sail: — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, 5 Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches,... | |
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