 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1878 - 814 pages
...once tripped up and silenced : is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination? And does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas ? When the Greeks made their fine saying that those whom the gods... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...once tripped up and silenced : is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination ? and does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas ? When the Greeks made their fine , saying that those whom the... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pages
...once tripped up and silenced: is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination? and does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas? When the Greeks made their fine saying that those whom the gods... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Quotations, Scottish - 1895 - 238 pages
...once tripped up and silenced: is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination? and does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas ? When the Greeks made their fine saying that those whom the gods... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...once tripped up and silenced : is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination ? and does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas ? When the Greeks made their fine saying that those whom the gods... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish essays - 1896 - 252 pages
...once tripped up and silenced : is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination ? and does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas ? When the Greeks made their fine saying that those whom the gods... | |
 | Hattie Tyng Griswold - Authors, American - 1898 - 398 pages
...mind the following words written by him many years ago, in connection with his sudden death: — " And does not life go down with a better grace, foaming...precipice, than miserably struggling to an end in shady deltas? In the hot fit of life, a-tiptoe on the highest point of being, he passes at a bound... | |
 | California - 1906 - 568 pages
...once trip|>cd up and silenced ; i* there not something brave and spirited in such a termination? And does not life go down with a better grace foaming in full body over a precipice than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas?" It is much of that spirit that has nerved citizens during those... | |
 | 1914 - 436 pages
...once tnpped up and silenced, is there not something brave and spirited in such a determination? And does not life go doWn with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas?" The Federal Children's Bureau A Summary of Its Work ' r*HE.... | |
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... tripped up and silenced: is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination? and does not life go down with a better grace, foaming in full body over a precipice, than miserably straggling to an end in sandy deltas? 
