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" I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding... "
Outre-mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea - Page 113
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 36 pages
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American Ladies' Magazine, Volume 7

Women - 1834 - 604 pages
...old. The eye of age looks meekly into iny heart! the voice of age echoes mournfully through it! the hoary head and palsied hand of age plead irresistibly...twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding!' ' " And did you leave her!" The work reminds us of Irving's ' Sketch-Book;' yet it is not an imitation...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 4

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1834 - 528 pages
...old. The eye of age looks meekly into my heart! the voice of age echoes mournfully through it ! the hoary head and palsied hand of age plead irresistibly...shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understandmg !" The " Baptism of Fire" — a tale of religious persecution for opinion's sake — closes...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 24

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - Periodicals - 1844 - 610 pages
...mournfully through it; the hoary head and palsied hand of age plead irresistibly for its sympathies. 1 venerate old age ; and I love not the man who can...twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.' • • • ADVICK, we are well aware, is one of thoae things which ' it is more blessed to give than...
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The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 32-33

Baptists - 1878 - 300 pages
...— Fenelon. I venerate old age ; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather...twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding. — Longfellow. You will confer the greatest benefits on your city, not by raising its roofs, but by...
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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate

Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...As it is common for the younger sort To lack discretion. AGE. AGE. without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the mtery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow bnxuier and deeper upon the understanding. Longfellow....
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A Handbook of Phrenology

Cornelius Donovan - Phrenology - 1870 - 232 pages
...its sympathies. I venerate old age, and love not the man who can look without emotion on the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather...twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding." FIRMNESS Is the pillar of the mind. It is not itself a virtue, but where it is not, virtue often fails....
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The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet: Combining 100 Choice ..., Volume 2

Readers - 1884 - 794 pages
...man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gat her over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding. Longfellow. Nor steel nor fire itself hath power Like woman in her conquering hour. Be thou but fair,...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed. with notes ...

Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...sympa thies! I venerate old age; and 1 love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather...the understanding! I pursued the pathway which led toward» the village, and the next person I encountered was an old man, stretched lazily beneath the...
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D ..., Volume 2

David Thomas - 1876 - 494 pages
...sympathies. I venerate old age, and I love lot the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eyes, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding." SERMONIC GLANCES...
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The biblical museum. Old Testament, Volume 4

James Comper Gray - 1878 - 404 pages
...sympathies ! I venerate old age ; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather...twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding." 7—11. (7) Gershonites, Ex. vi. 16. Laadan, called Libni, ch. vi. 17.« (8, 9) sons of Sliimei. there...
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