 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1861 - 304 pages
...hint his biographer had much better have taken: " Once in the flight of ages past There lived a num. And who was he? Mortal, howe'er thy lot be cast, That man resembled thee." And all that need be told of him, which he has not told of himself by writings or actions, the bard... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...the outrage he commits, Shall seek it—and not find it in lira turn. 494 LITERARY CLASS BOOK; XXIV THE COMMON LOT. ONCE, in the flight of ages past, There lived a man—and who was he? Mortal 1 howe'er thy lot be cast, That man resembled thee. Unknown the region... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...From the meridian arch of power, Shedding the lustre of thy reign, Like sunshine, over land and main. THE COMMON LOT. ONCE in the flight of ages past, There...The land in which he died unknown : His name hath perish'd from the earth, This truth survives alone: — That joy and grief, and hope and fear, Alternate... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 pages
...this cold world should cease, And our hearts, like thy waters, be mingled in peace ! T. MOORE. 18. THE COMMON LOT. ONCE in the flight of ages past, There...birth, The land in which he died unknown, His name has perish' d from the earth ; This truth survives alone : That joy and grief, and hope and fear, Alternate... | |
 | Alexander Simpson Patterson - 1862 - 236 pages
...Poet, " had the uncommon lot of being highly praised." Here is the little poem in question : — " Once, in the flight of ages past, There lived a man : — and WHO was HE ?Mortal 1 howe'er thy lot be cast, That Man resembled Thee. Unknown the region of his birth, The land in which... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1862 - 564 pages
...me there ! Even silent night proclaims my soul immortal ! 46. TOE COMMON LOT. — Jamrs Montgomery. ONCE, in the flight of ages past, There lived a man ; and Who was He ? Mortal ! howe'cr thy lot be cast, That Man resembled Thee. Unknown the region of his birth, The land in which... | |
 | Golden gleanings - 1863 - 342 pages
...a spark of fire, A transient meteor in the sky ; The SOUL, immortal as its Sire, SHALL NEVER D1E." THE COMMON LOT. Once, in the flight of ages past,...The land in which he died unknown : His name hath perish'd from the earth ; This truth survives alone : — That joy and grief, and hope and fear, Alternate... | |
 | 1864 - 334 pages
...goes fair and well ; For what 's amiss, Depend on this. That warehouse day will tell. H. DAVIS, 1847. THE COMMON LOT. ONCE in the flight of ages past, There...birth, The land in which he died unknown : His name has perish'd from the earth ; This truth survives alone : — That joy and grief, and hope and fear,... | |
 | Robert Raikes Raymond - 1864 - 530 pages
...childishness and .mere oblivion ; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, — sans everything ! Shakespeare. THE COMMON LOT. ONCE, in the flight of ages past,...his birth ; the land in which he died, unknown ; his namevhas perished from the earth ; this truth survives alone — that joy, and grief, and hope, and... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 336 pages
...goes fair and well ; For what 's amiss, Depend on this. That warehouse day will tell. H. DAVIS, 1847. THE COMMON LOT. ONCE in the flight of ages past, There lived a man, — and who was he 1 Mortal ! howe'er thy lot be cast, That man resembled thee. Unknown the region of his birth, The land... | |
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LOT. ONCE, in the flight of ages past, There lived a man:— and WHO was HE ? — Mortal ! howe'er thy lot be cast, That Man resembled Thee. Unknown the region of his birth, The land in which he .died unknown : His name has... 
