 | 1889 - 966 sider
...what is common with individuals ? Nothing is more common and nothing is more wise than to look back to our past hours, and ask them what report they bore to heaven. And how does a man become •wiser as he grows older, but by looking back upon the past and by learning from... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1890 - 224 sider
...death draw near to me, Hope, blossoming within my heart, May look to heaven as I depart.—Bryant 80. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, A.nd ask them what report they bore to heaven. — Young. 21 81. Leaves have their time to fall, [breath, And flowers to wither at the North wind's... | |
 | 1890 - 648 sider
...Lebanon NY Center K;oi ,il y . THE poet lias said, and many have repeated it after him, that "It is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, and ask them what report they bore to heaven." May we so spend them, as they come to us in rotation, that the review will be a pleasure and not a... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 sider
...death: He walks with nature, and her paths are peace. *Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, Ami ask them what report they bore to heaven, And how...news. Their answers form what men experience call; If wisdom's friend her best, if not, worst foe. THE MAN WHOSE THOUGHTS ARK NOT OF THIS WORLD. Some... | |
 | Charles Aldrich - 1891 - 582 sider
...their habits. and constant in their religious observances. Some one has said truly. " 'Tis pleasant to talk with our past hours. And ask them what report they bring for heaven." Memory calls up a thousand recollections of those early days when I was a student... | |
 | 1892 - 812 sider
...of future responsibility. We have to reckon on days past ; for time, like tide, stays for no man. " "Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And...And how they might have borne more welcome news." Let 118 then summon our past days, and ask what they have to say. First, concerning the world. Mrs.... | |
 | 1892 - 828 sider
...site. Death ! great proprietor of all, 'tis thine To tread out empire and to quench the stars. 'Tie greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time Bat from its loss; to give it then a tongue Is wise in... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 sider
...study myself more than any other subject ; it is my metaphysic, it is my "physic. — Montaigne. It is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, and ask...heaven, and how they might have borne more welcome news. — Young. It is easy to look down on others ; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. — Landor.... | |
 | 1894 - 446 sider
...to believe, because we know, is power, x, 145 To see Athens, one must have Athenian eyes, vii, 51 < 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours,) \ And ask them what report? f "' To those who LOVE, there is a return from Hades to Light, vii, 147 Truth always has the vantage... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1894 - 362 sider
...and these purposes the most dull and insignificant imaginable. " 'Twere greatly wise," says Young, " to talk with our past hours, and ask them what report they bear to Heaven." But meagre and unsatisfactory would have been the register of Mrs Ribley's doings,... | |
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Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news. 
