| Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1896 - 758 pages
...aspiration and unconscious prophecy of one of the early essays : — " 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 love die... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1878 - 814 pages
...: 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 love die young,... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 pages
...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 love die young,... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...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 love die... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - Quotations, Scottish - 1895 - 238 pages
...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 love die young,... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1914 - 236 pages
...: 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 love die young,... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...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 love die young,... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - Authors, Scottish - 1895 - 94 pages
...the aspiration and unconscious prophecy of one of the early essays : ' 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 love die... | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...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 love die young,... | |
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