SAY not of me that weakly I declined The labours of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like a child. But rather say : In the afternoon of time A strenuous family dusted from its hands The... The Harvard Monthly - Página 1181902Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 758 páginas
...apologises for his excellence in literature : — " Say not of me, that weakly I declined The laboure of my sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded, and the lampe we lit. To play at home with paper like я child ; But rather say : In the afttrnoon of time... | |
| 1887 - 708 páginas
...and to the father whom he has just conducted to the grave, both heroic builders of lighthouses:— Say not of me that weakly I declined The labours of my siras, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper like... | |
| 1893 - 322 páginas
...child than me ? O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song ! "SAY NOT OF ME" Say not of me that weakly I declined The labours of...afternoon of time A strenuous family dusted from its hands Tlu sand of granite, and beholding far ' ', Along the sounding coast its pyramids And tall memorials... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1893 - 364 páginas
...sires, and fled the sea, The towers we founded and the lamps we lit, To play at home with paper Ifyf a child. "But rather say : In the afternoon of time...beholding far *Along the sounding coast its pyramids ^nd tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled well content, and to this childish task Ground the fire... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 392 páginas
...creeping custom of the land, What deed of author or assign, Can make a house a thing of mine ? XXXVIII SAY not of me that weakly I declined The labours of...family dusted from its hands The sand of granite, and heholding far Along the sounding coast its pyramids And tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 394 páginas
...creeping custom of the land, What deed of author or assign, Can make a house a thing of mine ? XXXVIII SAY not of me that weakly I declined The labours of...family dusted from its hands The sand of granite, and heholding far Along the sounding coatt its pyramids And tall memorials catch the dying sun, Smiled... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 400 páginas
...creeping custom of the land, What deed of author or assign, Can make a house a thing of mine ? XXXVIII SAY not of me that weakly I declined The labours of...afternoon of time A strenuous family dusted from its bands The sand of granite, and bebolding far Along the sounding coast its pyramids And tan memorials... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1895 - 94 páginas
...amusing others. In his volume of poems he almost apologises for his excellence in literature : '•I ' Say not of me, that weakly I declined The labours...child ; But rather say : In the afternoon of time f* * * A strenuous family dutted from its hands The. sand of granite, and beholding far Along the sounding... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 740 páginas
...amusing others. In his volume of poems he almost apologises for his excellence in literature : — " Say not of me, that weakly I declined The labours...say : In the afternoon of time A strenuous family dutledfrom itt hands A sand of granite, and bcholding far Along the sounding coasts its pyramids And... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1896 - 406 páginas
...creeping custom of the land, What deed of author or assign, Can make a house a thing of mine Y xxxvin SAY not of me that weakly I declined The labours of...home with paper like a child. But rather say: In the aflernoon of time A strenuous family dusted from its hands The sand of granite, and beholding far Along... | |
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