 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...leaps; slow Reason feebly climbs. Brutes soon their zenith reach. In ages they No more could know, do, covet, or enjoy. Were man to live coeval with the sun, The patriarch pupil would be learning still. YOUNG: Night Thoughts. REBELLION. O think what anxious moments... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1876 - 840 pages
...progressive, instinct is complete ; Swifl instinct leaps ; slow reason feebly climbs. Brutes soon their zenith are Thy goodness beyond thought, and pfver divine....And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle half unlearnt. Men perish in advance, as if the Sun Should set ere noon, in eastern oceans drown'd;... | |
 | Cornelius Walker - Clergy - 1876 - 432 pages
...subject-matter, of course, is exhaustless. The language of poetry here is not at all that of exaggeration : " Were man to live coeval with the sun, The patriarch-pupil would be learning still, And dying, leave his lessons half unlearned." The pupil spirit is ever the proper spirit of the teacher,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...leaps ; slow Reason feebly climhi. Brutes soon their zenith reach. In ages they No more could know, do, his godly race, Nor e'er had changed nor wish'd to change patriarch pupil would be learning sülL 2931. REASON: insufficient. I SEE the errors that I would avoid,... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Birds - 1878 - 364 pages
...instinct is complete ; Swift Instinct leaps ; slow Reason feebly climbs ; Brutes soon their zenith reach ; their little all Flows in at once ; in ages they no more Can know, or ask, or covet, or enjoy. Were man to live coeval with the sun, The patriarch pupil would... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...leaps ; slow Reason feebly climbs. Brutes soon their zenith reach. In ages they No more could know, do, covet, or enjoy. Were man to live coeval with the sun, The patriarch pupil would be learning still. YOUNG: Night Thoughts. REBELLION. O think what anxious moments... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1879 - 624 pages
...progressive, Instinct is complete ; Swift Instinct leaps ; slow Reason feebly climbs. Brutes soon their zenith reach ; their little all Flows in at once ; in ages...would be learning still ; Yet, dying, leave his lesson half unlearn 'd. Men perish in advance, as if the sun Should set ere noon, in eastern oceans drown'd... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...progressive, instinct is complete ; Swift instinct leaps ; slow reason feebly climbs, Brutes soon their zenith reach ; their little all Flows in at once : in ages...enjoy ; Were man to live coeval with the sun, The patriareh-pupil would be learning still ; Yet, dying, leave his lesson half unlearn'd. Ib. If. T. vn.... | |
 | Joel Tiffany - 1881 - 470 pages
...been attained. The intellectual and rational faculties are progressive. " Brutes soon their zenith reach; their little all ' Flows in at once; in ages they no more ' Could do, or know, or covet or enjoy. ' Were man to live coeval wit'i the sun, ' The patriarch pupil would... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - Quotations, English - 1882 - 914 pages
...know; Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. e. YOUNG— Night Thoughts. Night VI. Line 519. /. YOUNG— Night Thoughts. Night XII. Line 86. LEISURE. And leave us leisure to be good. g. GEAÏ—... | |
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Reason progressive, instinct is complete ; Swift instinct leaps ; slow reason feebly climbs. Brutes soon their zenith reach ; their little all Flows in at once ; in ages they no more Could know, or do, or covet, or enjoy. Were man to live coeval with... 
