 | William Henry Maxwell - 1891 - 348 pages
...negatively. EXERCISE 44.—Tell the mode, tense, person, and number of each verb in the following selections: The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding...to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages.—T. Campbell. Star that bringest home the bee, And set'st the weary laborer free! The sun upon... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - 1892 - 482 pages
...the Evening Star," etc. "A Thought Suggested by the New Year," contains the substance of a volume: The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages; A day to childhood seems a year — • A year like passing ages. Heaven gives our years of failing strength Indemnifying fleetness,... | |
 | Emilie Poulsson - 1893 - 484 pages
...dayi of vacation have already made this seem long ago to the children; for, as Campbell says: — " A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages." Encourage reminiscences of the Christmas festival. Unless such experiences are recalled again and again... | |
 | Thomas Rhys Vickroy - 1894 - 296 pages
...What did the poet see in vision? What difference is there between the man and the sun ? Dictation. The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding...childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fleet.ness ; And those of youth a seeming length... | |
 | Frederick Henry Sykes - 1895 - 690 pages
...song condoles, 70 Singing glory to the souls A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY THE NEW YEAR. [THE RIVER OP LIFE.] The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding...like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, 6 Ere passion yet disorders, Steals, lingering like a river smooth Along its grassy borders. But, as... | |
 | James Morgan Hart - 1895 - 390 pages
...-built nest ; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. ROGERS: A Wish. The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding...childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. CAMPBELL : The River of Life. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...: And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. n. BYRON— Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 8. wledge but grieving? He may live without hope, — what is hope but deceiving ? o. CAMPBELL — A Thought Suggested by the New Year. That great mystery of TIME, were there no other;... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1896 - 664 pages
...to think of it. Ill BOYHOOD 1843-1848 •' The more we live, more brief appear Our life's returning stages : A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages." — THOMAS CAMPBELL. " Oi1 if, in time of sacred youth, We learned at home to love and pray, Pray Heaven... | |
 | John Mackintosh - 1896 - 532 pages
...his piece — " A Thought suggested by the New Year " : — " The more we live, more brief appears Our life's succeeding stages : A day to childhood seems a year, And years to passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, Ere passion yet disorders, Steals, lingering like... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1896 - 676 pages
...to think of it. Ill BOYHOOD 1843-1848 •' The more we live, more brief appear Our life's returning stages : A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages." — THOMAS CAMPBELL. " Oh if, in time of sacred youth, We learned at home to love and pray, Pray Heaven... | |
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But as the careworn cheek grows wan, And sorrow's shafts fly thicker, Ye Stars, that measure life to man, Why seem your courses quicker ? When joys have lost their bloom and breath And life itself is vapid... 
