 Shall I, who even in the morning of my days sought the lowly and sequestered paths of life, the valley, and not the mountain; shall I, now my evening is fast approaching, hold myself up as an object for fortune and for fame ? Admitting it as a certainty...  The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long]. - Pagina 102door Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1839Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Newport Natural History Society - 1883 - 662 pagina’s
...sequestered paths of life, — the valley, and not the mountain, — shall I, now my evening is fast approaching, hold myself up as an object for fortune...profession, is amply sufficient to gratify my wishes* And as for fame, what is it ? A gilded butt, forever pierced with the arrows of malignancy. The name... | |
 | Melville Weston Fuller - 1911 - 444 pagina’s
...lowly and sequestered paths of life, the valley and not the mountain; shall I, now my evening is fast approaching, hold myself up as an object for fortune and for fame? Admitting it as a certainty that I obtain both, what stock should I add to my little fund of happiness?... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1875 - 824 pagina’s
...and sequestered paths of life in the valley, and not the mountain — shall I, now my evening is fast approaching, hold myself up as an object for fortune and for fame ? Admitting it as a certainty that I obtain both, what stock should I add to my little fund of happiness?... | |
 | 1846 - 652 pagina’s
...sequestered paths of life — the valley, and not the mountain — shall I, now my evening 'is fast approaching, hold myself up as an object for fortune and for fame?" But the good cause continued to make progress. Its author, in a letter written to the Princess Louisa... | |
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