| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Huzzaed out of my seven senses. — The Spectator, No. 616. Nov. 5, 1774. Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim,...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Old Mortality. Ch. xxxiv./. 451. Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries ! The Monastery.... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...Love more than they the British lyre ? SIR WALTER SCOTT: Lord of the Isles. Sound, sound the clarion ! fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim,...hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. SIR WALTER SCOTT : from Old Mortality. Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds In ranks and squadrons,... | |
| Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...special offices in the Church, and their affluent positions. — Dr. Stamen. HOUR.— The Worth of on One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. — Sir W. Scott. ROИ18.— The Consecration of the The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous... | |
| William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - Anglo-Indians - 1875 - 286 pages
...his deathbed, "his last moments were peaceful." On such an occasion one is tempted to think that " One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." hope of pressing one day some well-fought and hard-won field of battle, and dying with the shout of... | |
| Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...still more glowing and eloquent, has Heber embodied the same idea : " Swell, swell the bugle ; sound the fife ; To all the sensual world proclaim — One...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." RUDDY DROPS. Gray has a well-known line : — " Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart," which... | |
| James Willis Westlake - American literature - 1876 - 168 pages
...Her quiet eyelids closed ; she had Glorious L{/e.] CLXXV1L Sound, sound the clarion ! fill the fifel To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. SCOTT Death (of Mrs. Lowell).] CLXXVIIL Then fell upon-the house a sudden gloom, A shadow on those... | |
| England - 1876 - 806 pages
...country — in- "harassing" legislation, as it was called — which alienated the constituencies ; but "One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. " From the pride and pleasure with which he surveyed this prospect, he passed, by an easy and rapid... | |
| Homer, William Lucas Collins - 1876 - 172 pages
...career 17 of victory, a warrior's death, and undying glory. He makes his choice as a hero should — " One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." One fable runs that his mother, Thetis, dipped him •when an infant in the river Styx^ which made... | |
| H. Alcmar - 1877 - 376 pages
...right in this affair. I therefore entreat you all to be of good courage." " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim...of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." SIR WALTER SCOTT. 55 Du Guesclin, a distinguished French knight. " His correct name was Du Glay-aquin,... | |
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