 And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores? What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May come refined with th  The Living Age - Pagina 2041873Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1875 - 508 pagina’s
...than the prose of Milton fifty years later. For us Occidentals he has a kindly prophetic word : — " And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue ? to what strange short 8 The gain of our best glory may be sent To enrich unknowing nations with our stores ? What worlds... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 584 pagina’s
...Daniel, the poet laureate of that kingdom, — Who in time knows whither we may vent The treasures of our tongue ? To what strange shores This gain of...What worlds, in th' yet unformed Occident, May 'come refined with th' accents that are ours. Already the fishing of Newfoundland was become the stay of... | |
 | John Eadie - 1876 - 440 pagina’s
...an Elizabethan bard ventured to sing — " And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasures of our tongue ? to what strange shores This gain of...What worlds in th' yet unformed Occident May 'come refin'd with accents that are ours ? " The beginning of the seventeenth century was propitious to the... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 460 pagina’s
...bring forth ; When all that ever hotter spirits expressed Comes bettered by the patience of the north. And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure...strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent To enrich unknowing nations with our stores ; What worlds in the yet unformed Occident May come refined... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 454 pagina’s
...bring forth ; When all that ever hotter spirits expressed Comes bettered by the patience of the north. And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure...strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent To enrich unknowing nations with our stores ; What worlds in the yet unformed Occident May come refined... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - 1876 - 416 pagina’s
...James I, more than a century and a half before : "Who in time knows whither we may vent The treasures of our tongue ? To what strange shores This gain of...unknowing nations with our stores ? What worlds, in the yet unformed Occident, May 'come refined with the accents that are ours ?" Charles Sumner, in his... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 350 pagina’s
...than the prose of Milton fifty years later. For us Occidentals he has a kindly prophetic word : — "And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue ? to what strange shores The gain of our best glory may be sent To enrich unknowing nations with our stores ? What worlds in... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 348 pagina’s
...than the prose of Milton fifty years later. For us Occidentals he has a kindly prophetic word : — " And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue ? to what strange shores The gain of our best glory may be sent To enrich unknowing nations with our stores ? What worlds in... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 346 pagina’s
...than the prose of Milton fifty years later. For us Occidentals he has a kindly prophetic word : — " And who in time knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue ? to what strange shores The gain of our best glory may be sent To enrich unknowing nations with our stores ? What worlds in... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1877 - 558 pagina’s
...contemporary, seemed to foresee the spread of our English speech, anticipating our own John Adams : — "And who (in time) knows whither we may vent The treasure...What worlds, in th' yet unformed Occident, May come refined with th' accents that are ours ? " 8 1 De Guiana Carmen Epicnm : Hakluyt, Voyages, (London,... | |
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