 | California - 1928 - 480 pages
...seems to be that so well expressed in the famous lines by the brother, the closing lines of "Columbus": "He gained a world, he gave that world Its grandest lesson: On! Sail on!" So when you are enjoying the pleasure of travel over the road that shall be known as US Highway No.... | |
 | California - 1920 - 618 pages
...through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights! And then a speck — A light! A light! At last a light! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew...gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!" Department on Oriental Affairs Conducted by Charles Hancock Forster and Gladys Bowman Forster WHERE... | |
 | Education - 1895 - 290 pages
...on! sail on! and on!" Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ah, that Of all dark nights! And then a speck — A light!...gave that world Its grandest lesson: "On! sail on!" night To Mount Shasta. I stood where thunderbolts were wont To smite thy Titan-fashioned front; I heard... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - Books and reading - 1900 - 504 pages
...say but one good word : What shall we do when hope is gone ? " The words leapt like a leaping sword : Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered...gave that world Its grandest lesson : " On ! sail on ! " RECEPTION OF COLUMBUS BY THE SPANISH COURT AT BARCELONA.1 WASHINGTON IRVING. ABOUT the middle of... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 954 pages
...Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ab, that night Of all dark nights I And then a speck — A light ! A light ! A light !...gave that world Its grandest lesson: " On ! sail on ! " AT THE GRAVE OF WALKER HE lies low in the levelled sand, Unsheltered from the tropic sun, And now... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American poetry - 1900 - 966 pages
...peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights ! And then a speck — A light ! A light IA a i s"\ 1900 Houghton, Mifflin and... Stedman Edmund Clarence" Edmund Clarence Stedman( 1 " AT THE GRAVE OF WALKER HE lies low in the levelled sand, Unsheltered from the tropic sun, And now... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 964 pages
...dark nights ! And then a speck — Alight! Alight! Alight! Alight! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled I this memorial due. ! " AT THE GRAVE OF WALKER HE lies low in the levelled sand, Unsheltered from the tropic snn, And now... | |
 | James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford - Historical poetry - 1902 - 470 pages
...deck, And peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights ! And then a speck — A light I a light ! a light ! a light ! It grew, a starlit flag...gave that world Its grandest lesson : "On ! sail on !" — Joaqttin Miller. COLUMBUS. St. Stephen's cloistered hall was proud In learning's pomp that day,... | |
 | Alice Rose Power - 1902 - 216 pages
...darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights ! And then a speck — Alight! Alight! Alight! Alight! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! It grew to be Time's...gave that world Its grandest lesson : " On ! sail on ! " — Joaquin Miller. *In a recent critical article in the London Athenamm is the sentence: " In... | |
 | John B. Horner - American literature - 1902 - 348 pages
...through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights ! And then a speck— Alight! Alight! Alight! Alight! It grew, a starlit flag unfurled ! It grew to be Time's...that world Its grandest lesson : ' ' On ! sail on ! " THE FORTUNATE ISLES. You sail and you seek for the Fortunate Isles, The old Greek Isles of the... | |
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Admiral, say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone?" The. words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!" Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, And peered through darkness. Ah, that night Of all dark nights! And... 
