 Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer Could Nature's...  Inland Educator and Indiana School Journal - Page 3381900Full view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface ; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with ua face to face. I... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1876 - 562 pages
...to Heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still. Ere any names of Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface ; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. 228... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface ; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to faci. I... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1879 - 592 pages
...to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Kurope here, Or, then, of Kurope fronting momward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer Could Nature's...face. I praise him not ; it were too late ; And some iimative weakness there must be In him who condescends to vietory Such as the Present gives, and cannot... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1879 - 644 pages
...their great campaign in Illinois. As I read those marvellous speeches, my wonder rose at every page. "' Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with ' me ' face to face.' " I had been wondering who Abraham Lincoln might be. In his speeches, I found... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 pages
...to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface ; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. I... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 pages
...to heaven and loved of loftiest stars. Nothing of Enrope here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface ; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. I... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - History - 1883 - 382 pages
...Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer Could Nature's equal scheme deface; Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of...were too late; And some innative weakness there must 'T is not the grapes of Canaan that repay, be In him who condescends to victory Such as the Present... | |
 | American periodicals - 1885 - 850 pages
...by any cheat of birth, But by his clear-grained human worth ; And bravé old wisdom of sincerity ! Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face, "Under the Willows" and "Pictures from Appledore" are written in asimple yet effective descriptive... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 pages
...cheat of birth, But by his clear-grained human worth ; And brave old wisdom of sincerity ! * * * # * Here was a type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. "Under the Willows" and "Pictures from Appledore" are written in a simple yet effective descriptive... | |
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