 | Lydia Maria Child - Old age - 1865 - 482 pages
...Matter for a jocund thought ; Spite of care and spite of grief, To gambol with Life's falling leaf. His sixty summers — what are they in truth ? By...With him the strong hilarity of youth Abides, despite gray hairs, a constant guest. His sun has veered a point toward the west, But light as dawn his heart... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - Old age - 1866 - 484 pages
...spite of grief, To gambol with Life's falling leaf. His sixty summers — what are they in truth? Bv Providence peculiarly blest, With him the strong hilarity of youth Abides, despite gray hairs, a constant guest. His sun has veered a point toward the west, But light as dawn his heart... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1863 - 480 pages
...combined, The elastic force no burden e'er could bow, The various talents and the single mind Which gave him moral power and mastery o'er mankind. " His sixty...With him the strong hilarity of youth Abides, despite gray hairs, a constant guest ; His sun has veered a point toward the west, But light as dawn his heart... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1876 - 376 pages
...detraction may not disavow The world of knowledge with the wit combined, The elastic force no burthen e'er could bow, The various talents and the single mind...him moral power and mastery o'er mankind. His sixty summers—what are they in truth ? By Providence peculiarly blest, With him the strong hilarity of... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - English literature - 1877 - 494 pages
...detraction may not disavow The world of knowledge with the wit combined, The elastic force no burthen e'er could bow, The various talents and the single mind...despite grey hairs, a constant guest. His sun has veer'da point toward the west, But light as dawn his heart is glowing yet ; That heart the simplest,... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1883 - 464 pages
...detraction may nnt disavow The world of knowledge with the wit combined, The elastic foree no burden e'er could bow, The various talents and the single mind...mastery o'er mankind. His sixty summers, — what aiv they in truth ! By Providence peculiarly blest, With him the strong hilarity of youth Abides, despite... | |
 | Lydia Maria Francis Child - Old age - 1884 - 482 pages
...Matter for a jocund thought ; Spite of care and spite of grief, To gambol with Life's falling leafl His sixty summers — what are they in truth ? By...With him the strong hilarity of youth Abides, despite gray hairs, a constant guest. Flis sun has veered a point toward the west, But light as dawn his heart... | |
 | Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley - Lake District (England) - 1899 - 236 pages
...his notes to " Philip van Arteveld," speaking of him as a man of sixty summers, could still say : " With him the strong hilarity of youth Abides, despite grey hairs, a constant guest." This hilarity was, doubtless, part of the poet's native stock of quiet humour, but it was also the... | |
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The elastic force no burthen ere could bow, The various talents and the single mind, Which give him moral power and mastery o'er mankind. His sixty summers — what are they in truth ? By Providence peculiarly blest, With him the strong hilarity of youth... 
