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,... A Political Survey - Página 146por Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1868 - 240 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1865 - 654 páginas
...world-honored urn. Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on §omo worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote : For him her Old World mould aside she threw, And, choo>ing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 páginas
...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 unexhansted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1883 - 236 páginas
...cannot mak« 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...west, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, zealous in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more, a shepherd of mankind, indeed,... | |
| Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1888 - 236 páginas
...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 inexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 562 páginas
...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...hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and trne. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed, Who loved his charge, but never... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 páginas
...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...shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength ot God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed. Who loved his charge,... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russel Lowell - 1891 - 560 páginas
...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...unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wine, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind... | |
| John Henry Barrows - 1893 - 572 páginas
...outburst reminds one of certain lines on Lincoln in Lowell's great Ode: " For him her Old World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuS untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true. How beautiful to... | |
| John Marshall Barker - 1894 - 282 páginas
...flower of democracy." We may apply to it what Lowell says of Lincoln : " For him her old-world moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the...unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new." The American colleges have held fast to the best of the ancient learning and utilized the best experiences... | |
| 1899 - 408 páginas
...equality of opportunity to all by reaching the highest possible station. In him "her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the...unexhausted West With stuff untainted shaped a hero new. Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame. New birth of our new soil, the first American." Underlying... | |
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