 | 1973 - 478 pages
...Canterbury Tales" at 60, Longfellow said: For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades...away, The sky is filled with stars invisible by day. Longfellow's contemporary, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, reemphasized by deed Longfellow's point that... | |
 | David Hackett Fischer - 1978 - 306 pages
...Inn, But other something, would we but begin; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.6 Hawthorne and Longfellow were as favorable to old age as any major literary figures of their... | |
 | Eve Merriam - 1983 - 68 pages
...FRED. Of course. As Longfellow concludes: "For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades...away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." Enfold yourself in the wisdom of years. (He wraps her with a long black sash around and around.) WILMA.... | |
 | Max D. Isaacson - 1984 - 180 pages
...Into the Arctic regions of our lives . . . For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades...away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. MORE SELF-RESPECT There will be setbacks along the way, regardless of your age. I still can recall... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1988 - 442 pages
...Inn,* But other something, would we but begin; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades...away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. SHORTER LYRIC AND NARRATIVE POEMS A PSALM OF LIFE* WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST... | |
 | Thomas R. Cole - 1992 - 304 pages
...Even the oldest tree some fruit may bear; For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades...away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. While some poets, like Holmes and Longfellow, urged new explorations, others — Bryant and Whittier,... | |
 | Douglas H. Powell, Dean K. Whitla - 1994 - 280 pages
...when he wrote:46 For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though, in another dress, And as evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. 10 Findings and Conclusions In the preceding chapters we have shared with the reader our understanding... | |
 | Richard Ingalese, Isabella Ingalese - 1996 - 284 pages
...Longfellow so beautifully expresses it, that: "Age is opportunity no less Than Youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades...away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day." LESSON SIX. FATALISM, KARMA AND FREE WILL. Fatalism, Karma, Free Will ; these four words epitomize... | |
 | Walter M. Bortz - 1996 - 276 pages
...for which the first was made. As Longfellow wrote: For age is opportunity no less Than youth, though in another dress And as the evening twilight fades...away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. WISDOM The splendor of human existence is ultimately dependent on the ability of our minds to extract... | |
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. 
