 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1836 - 402 דפים
...two or three, but they are not the most remarkable. To these two fine lines — " ' I'is greatly wire to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven," he has given the illustration of one sitting and with an earnest countenance conversing with a small... | |
 | 1901 - 778 דפים
...spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It Is the knell of my departed hours. * * * * * * * 'TIs greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And...If Wisdom's friend, her best; if not, worst foe." "Oh Time! thou beautifler of the dead, — Adorner of the ruin— comforter And only healer when the... | |
 | Gordon Augustus Southworth, Farley Brewer Goddard - 1889 - 322 דפים
...puts to sea, his prayer is, "Keep me, my God, for my boat is so small and Thy ocean is so wide." 15. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, And ask them what report they bore to heaven. 16. The happiest man is he who, being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest... | |
 | K. L. Armstrong - 1889 - 460 דפים
...Pierpont. Happy the mnn who sees a God employed In all the good and ill that checker life ! — Cowper. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours. And ask them what report they bore to heaven. — Young. Kind hearts are more than coronets. And simple faith than Norman blood. — Tennyson. Tis... | |
 | 1889 - 966 דפים
...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 דפים
...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 דפים
...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 דפים
...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...call; If wisdom's friend her best, if not, worst foe. THE MAN WHOSE THOUGHTS ARK NOT OF THIS WORLD. Some angel guide my pencil, while I draw, What nothing... | |
 | Charles Aldrich - 1891 - 582 דפים
...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 דפים
...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.... | |
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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. 
