 | United States - 1825 - 398 pages
...comes in tones which I cannot mistake. I catch its words of noble cheer : — uNew occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea." 11 OF A LECTURE DELIVERED BEFORE THE ESSEX 'INSTITUTE, MAY 12, 1850, RESPECTING THE FOUNDERS OF V wttnf... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...slay, From the tombs of the old prophets steal the funeral lamps away, To light up the martyr-faggots round the prophets of to-day! New occasions teach...Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key. SONG. BY THOMAS MOORE. Oh, no !— not e'en when first we loved, Were thou as dear as now thou art,... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...funeral lamps away, To light up the martyr-faggots round the prophets of to-day 1 New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They...Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key. SONG. BT THOMAS HOOBE. Oh, no !— not e'en when first we loved, Were thou as dear as now thou art,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...haste to slay, From the tombs of the old prophets steal the funeral lamps away New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They...the Future's portal with the Past's bloodrusted key. SUMMER STORM. UNTBEMULOTTS in the river clear, Toward the sky's image, hangs the imaged bridge ; So... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - Boston courier - 1852 - 270 pages
...slay, From the tombs of the old prophets steal the funeral lamps away To light up the manyr-fagots round the prophets of to-day? New occasions teach...Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key. December, 11, IMS. ON THE CAPTURE OF CERTAIN FUGITIVE SLAVES NEAR WASHINGTON. BY THE SAME. Look on... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - Boston courier - 1852 - 272 pages
...funeral lamps away To light up the martyr-fagots round the prophets of to-day ? Kew occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They...Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key. December, 11, 1845. ON THE CAPTURE OF CERTAIN FUGITIVE SLAVES BY THE SAME. Look on who will in apathy,... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionists - 1852 - 428 pages
...transcend our predecessors, in their efforts to give peace, joy, liberty to the world. 1New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...winter sea, Nor attempt the FUTURE'S portal with the FAST'S blood-rusted key.' The history of the world presents no period so interesting or so sublime... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 284 pages
...Shall we, in our haste to slay, From the tombs of the old prophets steal the funeral lamps away To light up the martyr-fagots round the prophets of to-day...the Future's portal with the Past's bloodrusted key. December, 1845. SUMMER STORM. UNTBEMTJLOUS in the river clear, Toward the sky's image, hangs the imaged... | |
 | Pilgrim Society (Plymouth, Mass.) - Festivals - 1853 - 206 pages
...all reformers. He caught these words of noble cheer from Plymouth Rock : — " New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They...and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea." The fourth of the speeches which were most marked for their substance or the sources from which they... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 736 pages
...comes in tones which I cannot mistake. I catch its words of noble cheer: — " New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They...and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea." THE LANDMARK OF FREEDOM; FREEDOM NATIONAL. SPEECH IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, AGAINST THB REPEAL... | |
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New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through... 
