 | 1911 - 474 pagine
...away on his seventy-seventh birthday, 1682. Sir Thomas Browne justly merits the following tribute: "Say, did these fingers delve the mine, Or with its...rubies shine? To hew the rock or wear the gem Can little now avail to them; But if the page of truth they sought, Or comfort to the mourner brought,... | |
 | Bp. John Bernard Delany - 1911 - 490 pagine
...glory of thy tongue, that 'Falsehood's honey it disdained, And when it could not praise was chained, If bold in Virtue's cause it spoke. Yet gentle concord never broke That silent tongue will plead for thee When time unveils eternity.' "I do not mean this for yourself, for... | |
 | 1911 - 482 pagine
...swift and tuneful tongue ; If falsehood's honey it disdained, And when it could not praise was chained; If bold in virtue's cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke, — This silent tongue shall plead for thee When time unveils eternity! Say, did these fingers delve... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1911 - 472 pagine
...swift and tuneful tongue ; If falsehood's honey it disdained, And when it could not praise was chained; If bold in virtue's cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke, — This silent tongue shall plead for thee When time unveils eternity! Say, did these fingers delve... | |
 | 1913 - 662 pagine
...swift, and tuneful tongue, If Falsehood's honey it disdained, And where it could not praise was chained, If bold in Virtue's cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke That silent tongue shall plead for thee When Time unveils Eternity. Say, did these fingers delve the mine,... | |
 | 1915 - 368 pagine
...and tuneful tongue : If Falsehood's honey it disdain'd, And when it could not praise was chain'd ; If bold in Virtue's cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke, — This silent tongue shall plead for thee When Time unveils Eternity! Say, did these fingers delve... | |
 | 1921 - 468 pagine
...Virtue's cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke This silent tongue shall plead for thee, When time unveils eternity. Say, did these fingers delve the...rubies shine? To hew the rock, or wear the gem Can little now avail to them. But if the page of truth they sought, Or comfort to the mourner brought,... | |
 | 1876 - 390 pagine
...and tuneful tongue : If falsehood's honey it disdained, And when it could not praise, was chained ; If bold in virtue's cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke, — This silent tongue shall plead for thee, When time unveils eternity. Say, did those fingers delve... | |
 | National Americana Society - 1922 - 784 pagine
...swift and tuneful tongue; If falsehood's honey it disdained, And when it could not praise was chained; If bold in virtue's cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke, — This silent tongue shall plead for thee When Time unveils Eternity ! Say, did these fingers delve... | |
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 402 pagine
...swift and tuneful tongue. If Falsehood's honey it disdained, And when it could not praise was chained ; If bold in Virtue's cause it spoke, Yet gentle concord never broke, This silent tongue shall plead for thee When Time unveils Eternity! SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE ENGLAND,... | |
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Say, did these fingers delve the mine, Or with the envied rubies shine? To hew the rock or wear the gem Can little now avail to them. But if the page of truth they sought... 
