 | 1915 - 826 páginas
...expand and mellow in the sunshine; it will not bare itself to a stiletto. — Francis P. Donnelly, SJ 6. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. — OW Holmes. 7. The more we do, the more we can do ; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 páginas
...John G. Whittier and James Russell Lowell sent letters. Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote Mrs. Howe that "to be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old." Hon. George W'illiam Curtis, in his letter, said, "I shall still be a little too lame to venture so... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson - 1890 - 708 páginas
...OF 1888. Here comes another of the Spell-binders ! WILLIAM CASSIUS GOODLOE. 1841-89. EXPERTO CREDE. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. — On the seventieth Birthday of Julia Ward Howe, 27 J/ni/. 188!). From the Bishop's Address at the... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 páginas
...(OLD). AGE (OLD). Slow-consuming age. o. GRAY — Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. St. 9. azed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head should carry all lie knew. 6. GOLDSMITH — 6. 0. W. HOLMES— On the seventieth birthday of Julia Ward Howe, May 27, 1889. A green old age, unconscious... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - 1899 - 228 páginas
...sorrow swells in every gale, Each wave low rippling tells a mournful tale. — FELICIA D. HEMANS. 3. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful...to be forty years old. — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 4. Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.— JOHN MILTON. 5. More helpful... | |
 | 1899 - 704 páginas
...To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works and chief men of each race. Emerson. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Helmet. To be spiritually minded is life and peace. Paul. To be thus is nothing ; / But to be safely... | |
 | 1899 - 244 páginas
...women if there were not men to poke the fire. MRS. JAMES CLARKE. To be seventy years young is something far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. A CATO twenty years of age, an Adonis fifty years of age, are equally ridiculous. COMTE DE SEGUR. THE... | |
 | 1900 - 424 páginas
...holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale ! To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.... | |
 | Cuyler Reynolds - 1902 - 504 páginas
...sweet past! sometimes remembrance raises thy long veil, then we weep in recognising thee ! I/xnSE LABE. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. HOLMES. On 70th birthday of Julia W. Howe, May 27, 1889. The erection of a monument is superfluous... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 páginas
...mnch used till they are seasoned. ibid. The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability. ibid. cui. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. On the Seventieth Birthday of Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1889). ROBERT C. WINTHROP. 1809— Our Country,... | |
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. 
