 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...have led my life In idle meditations — that the times Demand me, that they call my father's name 1 Oh ! what a fiery heart was his ! such souls Whose...more persuades Unto dominion than thy death deters ! LESSON Van Artecelde's Defence of his R.cMlim. — HENRY -T ATI OB. Have been insurgent ; whom did... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...led my life In idle meditations ? — that the times Demand me, that they call my father's name ? O, what a fiery heart was his ! such souls, Whose sudden...the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages. O, my father ! Thy life is eloquent, and more persuades Unto dominion than thy death deters ! 42. THE... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...led my life In idle meditations ? — that the times Demand me, that they call my father's name ? O, what a fiery heart was his ! such souls, Whose sudden...the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages. O, my father ! Thy life is eloquent, and more persuades Unto dominion than thy death deters ! 42. THE... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...life •, In idle meditations ? — that the times f Demand me, that they call my father's name ? O, what a fiery heart was his ! such souls, . Whose sudden...the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages. O, my father ! Thy life is eloquent, and more persuades Unto dominion than thy death deters ! 42. THE... | |
 | Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...well. [Exit VAN DEN BOSCH. Art. (after a long pause). Is it vain glory that thus whispers me, That 'tis ignoble to have led my life In idle meditations —...more persuades Unto dominion than thy death deters ! HLSRV TATLOm 21. TELL AND HIS COUNTRYMEN. Tell, Erni, Verner, Furst. SCENE — A Lake and Mountains.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...thought is tired of wandering o'er the world And homebound fancy runs her bark ashore. Act i. Sc. 7. Such souls Whose sudden visitations daze the world,...the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages. PHILLIP JAMES BAILEY. Festus. We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings,... | |
 | John Watts De Peyster - Menapii - 1858 - 578 pages
...; BRITAIN'S AUGUSTUS; JijollaiuYs First Conquering Admiral; ENGLAND'S FIRST SEAMAN KING. One among "Such souls Whose sudden visitations daze the world,...leave behind A voice that in the distance, far away, \Vnkons tlio slumbering apres.v "Thus tar, with rou<xh, and all unable pi>n. Our bending author Lath... | |
 | Wales - 1860 - 394 pages
...delight, which is experienced only in rare moments, either in an individual's or a nation's life. " A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages." Such a memory cannot fail to be roused within the breast now ; and such thoughts as may charm even... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...sun, Earth-bound hearts thoi, shalt deliver; O, for their sakes, press thou on I Such souls, JOHNSON. Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like...the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages. All may save self; but minds that heavenward tower Aim at a wider power, Gifts on the world to shower.... | |
 | Adam Lind Simpson - Biography - 1861 - 464 pages
...CHAPTER XIV. PIONEERS IN PHILOSOPHY CONTINUED — LORD BACON, " Such souls Whose sudden visitations leave behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages." H. TAYLOR. FROM this hasty sketch of some who attempted to put philosophy on a better footing, but... | |
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t is ignoble to have led my life In idle meditations — that the times Demand me, that they call my father's name. Oh ! what a fiery heart was his ! such souls Whose sudden visitations daze the world, Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind A voice... 
