 | 1836 - 422 pages
...THROUGH THE WOULD IK A GOOD COAT AND A BAD ONE. WriLIAM COX. EXCERPTS FROM COLERIDGE. AN APT SIMILE. To most men, experience is like the stern-lights of...ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. ' CUnlOUS ILLUSTRATION. IT is not enough that we have once swallowed truths ; we must feed on them,... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1852 - 446 pages
...Cruel, seldom to be kind ; Lite the stern-light, ihoies too clearly But the track we leave behind! To most men, Experience is like the stern-lights of...ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. ST COLERIDGE. Page 48, line 2. / see thee ofi in Fancy's glass, " Edwin " and " Hanger " in thy train,... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...advantageous, were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable. ^Experience,— Coleridge. 'TO most men Experience is like the stern-lights of...ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. 3EXperienCe. — Shakspeare. To wilful men, The injuries that they themselves procure, Must be their... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1861 - 368 pages
...loss a gain to match ? Or reach a hand through time to catch The far-off interest of tears ? " * " To most men experience is like the stern-lights of...ship, which illumine only the track it has passed." Charles Lamb, however, was the "track," and the stern-lights shed their full power on him. At twenty-one... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 pages
...our minds ? and if wo were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire ? Julian and Maddola To most men, experience is like the stern-lights of a ship, which illummo only the track it has passed. — COLERIDGE. We arrive complete novices at the different ages... | |
 | Connecticut. State Board of Education - 1875 - 292 pages
...yesterday, the same old thing over and over again, discarding no errors, adopting no improvement ? To many men, experience is like the stern-lights of a ship...mind's eye to look before and choose the right way. Roger Ascham, the author of the first, the best, and almost the only educational classic in our tongue,... | |
 | Connecticut. Board of Education - 1875 - 302 pages
...yesterday, the same old thing over and over again, discarding no errors, adopting no improvement ? To many men, experience is like the stern-lights of a ship...mind's eye to look before and choose the right way. Roger Ascham, the author of the first, the best, and almost the only educational classic in our tongue,... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pages
...our minds ? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire ? Julian and Maddolo. To most men, experience is like the stern-lights of...ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. — COLERIDGE. We arrive complete novices at the different ages of life, and we often want experience... | |
 | Elijah Ward - 1877 - 332 pages
...obtain a fancied benefit for others we do not destroy ourselves. It has been justly said, sir, that to most men experience is like the stern-lights of...ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. It will be a sad thing for the Republic if those who have it in their power to control its destinies... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1877 - 812 pages
...wave of the sea, which takes its form from the waves which precede and follow it ; and Experience to the stern-lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. His epigram on a bad singer is excellent : Swans sing before they die ; 'twere no bad thing Should... | |
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To many men, experience is like the stern-lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed. 
