| 1876 - 564 pages
...funeral lamps away To light up the martyr-fagots round the prophets of to-day ? New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. To a Pine- Tree. FAR away on Katahdin... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pages
...funeral lamps away To light up the martyr-fagots round the prophets of to-day ? New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key. December, 1S45. AN INDIAN-SUMMER REVERIE. WHAT visionary tints... | |
| James Willis Westlake - 1876 - 168 pages
...in all things, the supreme Excellence is simplicity. LONGFRLLOW. Duties.} XCIIL New occasions teach new duties; time makes ancient good uncouth; They...must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast ol truth. LOWBLL: The Present Crisis. Education.} XCIV. Trust in GW.] XCV. I know not what the future... | |
| Monday Club (Boston). - 1892 - 422 pages
...circumstances which, even if we know they mean certain disaster, we cannot avoid, but must embrace. "We ourselves must pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower and steer boldly Through the wintry sea." That is the plane of commonality on which we stand, the position which we occupy with... | |
| Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1877 - 298 pages
...conceal and neutralize the past. Their hearts are always sighing with the poet : " New occasions teach new duties ; time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key." And very singular, too, as we reflect on it, is the assumption... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...funeral lamps away To light up the martyr- fagots round the prophets of to-day ? New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims lie, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Xor attempt the Future's... | |
| WM. James - 1878 - 460 pages
...motto must be the French maxim, Be of your own time ; or, as our own poet has it: " New occasions teach new duties: Time makes ancient good uncouth; They...still and onward Who would keep abreast of Truth." What we have to do is to meet the modern spirit fairly and lead it up to higher ground. History shows... | |
| 1879 - 644 pages
...funeral lamps away To light up the martyr-fagots round the prophets of to-day? New occasions teach new duties ; time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key. TALKS ABOUT JESUS. The subjects of the remaining sermons in... | |
| 1885 - 650 pages
...History's golden urn. "New occasions teach new duties; ,Time makes ancient good uncouth; They mu-.t upward still, and onward, who- would keep abreast...camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayfl 1wer, and steer b)ldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portll with... | |
| Brimfield (Mass. : Town) - 1879 - 590 pages
...exodus to a promised land. The duty of the present is to have regard for the future as well as the past. Lo ! before us gleam her camp-fires, We ourselves must pilgrims be ; Launch our Mayflower and boldly steer, In faith that shrinks not from the desperate winter sea."* • The address, as now printed,... | |
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