 Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot or leave it bare, When he might build him...  Self Culture - Pàgina 3211900Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas Moore - 1817 - 416 pàgines
...rare, " Etherial virtue, which alone can breathe " Life, health, and lustre into Freedom's wreath ! " Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, " This...boundless seas, " The past, the future, two eternities I — " Would sully the bright spot or leave it bare, " When he might build him a proud temple there,... | |
 | 1817 - 646 pàgines
...high, rarr, Etherial virtue, which alone ran breathe Life, health, and iHstre, into freedom's wrealh ! Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, This...life in Time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'nvi.-.t two boundless teas, The past, the future, two eternities, — Would sully the bright spot... | |
 | 1817 - 552 pàgines
...virtue, which alone can breathe Life, health, and lustre into Freedom's wreath! Л'Ьо that survey» this span of earth we press, This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 4wixl two boundless seas, The past, the future, two extremities !— — IVould sully the bright spot,... | |
 | 1817 - 548 pàgines
...Ethrrial virtue, which alone can breathe Life, health, and luMrciiito Freedom's wreath! Who that survey« this span of earth we press, This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 4wixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two extremities !— — AYould sully the bright ipot,... | |
 | 1822 - 690 pàgines
...amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. ON ENTHUSIASM. PL lib. 2. line 895. W. '• Who that surveys this span of earth we press, This...This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past—the future—two eternities— Would sully the bright spot, or leave it bare, When he might... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1829 - 456 pàgines
...high, rare, Etherial virtue, which alone can breathe Life, health, and lustre into Freedom's wreath ! Who that surveys this span of earth we press, This...leave it bare, When he might build him a proud temple mere, A name that long shall hallow all its space, And be each purer soul's high resting-place? But... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 440 pàgines
...high, rare, Ethereal virtue, which alone can breathe Life, health, and lustre into Freedom's wreath ! Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, This...life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twist two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! Would sully the bright epot, or leave... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1838 - 412 pàgines
...high, rare. Ethereal virtue, which alone can breathe Life, health, and lustre into Freedom's wreath ! Who, that surveys this span of earth we press. This...proud temple there, A name, that long shall hallow all it« space, And be each purer soul's lugh resting-place? But no — it cannot be that one, whom God... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 724 pàgines
...'Tis late — o'er Caurus hangs the northern car; My page is out — -and so is your cigar. MEMORIALS. WHO that surveys this span of earth we press, This...Time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt t\vo boundless seas, The past, the future — two eternities, Would sully the hriirht spot, or leave... | |
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