| James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 340 pages
...pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage—what to me were sun or clime ! I, the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time.— Fool! again the dream, the fancy ! but I know my words are wild, But I count the grey barbarian lower... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1865 - 354 pages
...weakening the inference to which we are irresistibly led by Geology, History, and Archaeology—that Man, The heir of all the ages in the foremost files of Time, is a very much nobler and more exalted animal than the shivering and naked savage whose squalid and... | |
| sir Daniel Wilson - 1865 - 1014 pages
...so that to expect the coloured American to stand up at once on a par with the Anglo-American — " The heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time," is simply to expect grapes of thorns, and figs of thistles. But the ethnological phenomena of the American... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...process of the suns. Ibid. I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race. Locksleg Ball. I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time. Ibid. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Ibid. Better fifty years... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pages
...pleasures, like a beast with lower pains ! Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime ? I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze... | |
| Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1876 - 548 pages
...Heaven for all things!" EVE: AN IDYLL. I. TOWN. I AM quite sensible of the advantage of being born " the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time," and rejoice that I live in the days of railroads, telegraphic wires, cheap postage, and chloroform.... | |
| Cheltenham College - 1867 - 362 pages
...inherit great privileges. In the words of the poet may each one who reads these words repeat — " I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of Time." Naturally enough, one is somewhat confused at the vast resources opened before him, and there is great... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1867 - 78 pages
...thoughtful, and nobler men. It is hardly satisfactory that the child of nineteen Christian centuries, " the heir of all the ages in the foremost files of time," should spend all his energies, and all his admiration on the attainment of those corporeal attributes... | |
| Robert Hall Baynes - 1877 - 674 pages
...said Ralph, who had thrown aside his pipe by this time, and drawn nearer the mulberry tree. " You, ' the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time ' ! I am shocked at you, Miss Rowe." " Yes," said Honor, with a scornful laugh, " heir of all the ages... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 402 pages
...lower pleasures, like a beast with Mated with a squalid savage — what to me were sun or clime 1 I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time — I that rather held it better men should perish one by one, Than that earth should stand at gaze... | |
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