| Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 932 páginas
...by the tollies of our European nations. ( Napoleon. Thus, too, sail on, 0 ship of State ! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! (Longfellow. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...will to men. (1. 1 —5) Tlw Building of the Ship 6 Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O of Love beheld Who in the sunny beams did glide!...24 With sweet May dews my wings were wet, And Phoe on thy fate! 12 Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; The... | |
| Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert - 1993 - 1898 páginas
...letter contains a quotation from Longfellow's poem which read: 'Sail on O ship of state! Sail on O Union, strong and great! Humanity, with all its fears,...all the hopes of future years! Is hanging breathless on thy fate!' It was addressed to him as 'A Certain Naval Person.'1 This, apparently, was a sort of... | |
| John J. Pullen - 1997 - 308 páginas
...my greatness! ' " And now another poet had written: Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! It was James Pollock who put the design-concept into words. He wrote, "The medal proposed... | |
| Warren F. Kimball - 1998 - 440 páginas
...Longfellow and asked Wendell Willkie to give it to Churchill: Sail on, Oh Ship of State! Sail on, Oh Union strong and great. Humanity with all its fears With all the hope of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate.24 Fittingly Churchill brought to Newfoundland... | |
| V. P. Menon - 1997 - 606 páginas
...great man to another at a crisis of the late war, and may well be applied to India at this crisis : 'Thou too, sail on, 0 Ship of State, Sail on, 0 Union,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate,' APPENDIX VII STATEMENT BY SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON 16 MAY 1946 You... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...striking the hour. 6475 'The Building of the Ship' Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O on thy fate! 6476 'Children' Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye... | |
| Julius Thomas Fraser - 1999 - 330 páginas
...an amount he would have needed thirteen years to earn. In 1 849 Longfellow reflected on his America: "Humanity with all its fears, / With all the hopes of future years / Is hanging breathless on your fate." A century and a half later it has become impossible to say much about the world without... | |
| Mary Louise Kete - 2000 - 308 páginas
...three levels into one in his famous coda beginning: Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears....all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! (377-81) Longfellow here refashions the conventional image of the ship of state by grafting... | |
| David P. Schippers, Alan P. Henry - 2000 - 366 páginas
...Building of the Ship" by Longfellow. Permit me to quote the stanza: Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears,...all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! How sublime, poignant, and uplifting; yet how profound and sobering are those words at... | |
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