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 113by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1835 - 36 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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