 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 Seiten
...special offices in the Church, and their affluent positions. — Dr. Stamen. HOUR.— The Worth of on One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. — Sir W. Scott. ROИ18.— The Consecration of the The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1876 - 622 Seiten
...but the world will move, and its inhabitants must move with it. Besides, what says SIB WALTKE ? — " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the...glorious life Is worth an age without a name." The heroes eat no lotos. Ulysses and Mr. Punch alike decline torpidity. The universe wants the mind of... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 Seiten
...still more glowing and eloquent, has Heber embodied the same idea : " Swell, swell the bugle ; sound the fife ; To all the sensual world proclaim — One...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." RUDDY DROPS. Gray has a well-known line : — " Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart," which... | |
 | James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 Seiten
...Her quiet eyelids closed ; she had Glorious L{/e.] CLXXV1L Sound, sound the clarion ! fill the fifel To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. SCOTT Death (of Mrs. Lowell).] CLXXVIIL Then fell upon-the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those... | |
 | Homer, William Lucas Collins - 1876 - 172 Seiten
...career 17 of victory, a warrior's death, and undying glory. He makes his choice as a hero should — " One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." One fable runs that his mother, Thetis, dipped him •when an infant in the river Styx^ which made... | |
 | 1876 - 806 Seiten
...country — in- "harassing" legislation, as it was called — which alienated the constituencies ; but "One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. " From the pride and pleasure with which he surveyed this prospect, he passed, by an easy and rapid... | |
 | H. Alcmar - 1877 - 376 Seiten
...from the justice of our right in this affair. I therefore entreat you all to be of good courage." " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." SIR WALTER SCOTT. 55 Du Guesclin, a distinguished French knight. " His correct name was Du Glay-aquin,... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...during the War, 1756-1763 (attributed to Mordaunt) 1 Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout is x .` . H . (1. 1—4) EBEV; FaBoEE; FaPoR; NOBE; NOEC; OBEV; TrGrPo SIR THOMAS MORE (SAINT THOMAS MORE) (1478-1535)... | |
 | Barry R. Harker - 1996 - 222 Seiten
...English poet, Mordaunt, wrote these prophetic words: Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.6'1 The heroic and irrational elements of Romanticism unleashed the highly destructive phase of... | |
 | Susan Moore, Doreen Rosenthal, Anne Mitchell - 1996 - 196 Seiten
...and case material. For some, it seems to be a case of the belief that life without risk is no fun: 'one crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name', or in more contemporary terms, 'live hard, die pretty'. A second reason behind consciously reckless... | |
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. 
