 | American essays - 1872 - 810 pages
...his clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity I His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapcrs blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lived. Fruitful and friendly for all human-kind,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 518 pages
...elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars,...lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for his humankind, Yet also known to Heaven and friend with all... | |
 | 1879 - 692 pages
...supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now. now lost in vapours blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined Fruitful and friendly for all human kind,... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - America - 1868 - 300 pages
...type of the true elder race, And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face. He was no lonely mountain peak of mind Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars A seamark now, now lost in vapours blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for his humankind,... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - Baptists - 1869 - 524 pages
...supple-tempered will, That bent like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars,...lost in vapors blind; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven, and loved of loftiest... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Literary Criticism - 1869 - 312 pages
...supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. nis was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to* thin air o'er our cloudy bars,...lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to Heaven and loved of loftiest... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak fell ; But ere it met the billow blue He caught within...droplet of its sparkling dew, — Joy to thee, fay level-lined. Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1873 - 484 pages
...thrust. His was no lonely mountain.peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea. mark now, now lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather,...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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy liars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind ; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - English literature - 1874 - 360 pages
...spring again and thrust. In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars,...lost in vapors blind; Broad prairie rather, genial, level-lined, Fruitful and friendly for all human kind, Yet also nigh to heaven and loved of loftiest... | |
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And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now, now lost in vapors blind; Broad prairie rather, genial, levellined,... 
