 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1894 - 862 էջ
...more a roving By the light of the moon. (1817.) STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA. Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The...Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. \Vhnt are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled? 'Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1894 - 248 էջ
...were hardly misleading to sign the name of Thomas Moore after these verses, for example : — ' O, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days...two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though never so plenty.' The honeyed smoothness of Moore's melodies does not now fascinate the ear accustomed... | |
 | 1908 - 442 էջ
...office have cause in due time to bless — and hear Alma Mater bless — the day they were born : " Oh talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days...days of our glory ; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two and twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty." TRAINING IN PUBLIC SPEAKING. BY... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1894 - 250 էջ
...chastened style a more comfortable thing than impassioned prose and pages of bravura^ still, after all, ' the days of our youth are the days of our glory,' and for a reader who is both young and eager the Selections Grave and Gay of Thomas de Quincey will always... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 էջ
...men ! " BYRON. English Bards and Scoteh Reviewers. "Oh, no! we never mention her." HAYNES BAYLY. " Oh talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days of our youth are the days of our glory." BYRON. Stanzas written on the road between Florence and Pisa, I. " Oh that eternal want of pence, Which... | |
 | 1897 - 418 էջ
...anything else on earth, yet Byron knew it all, when he said : ' ' Talk not to me of the names of the great in story, The days of our youth are the days of our glory." , Theta Delta Chi above all other fraternities was founded upon this : The Friendship of Men. There... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1898 - 112 էջ
...Death a Victory. STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE EOAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA. Written in November, 1821. OH, talk not to me of a name great in story; The days...Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. 5 What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled ? 'T is but as a dead flower with May-dew... | |
 | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - 1899 - 346 էջ
...smile ; no doubt, many of us since then have turned out pretty cads ! But youth . . . youth. . . .' ' Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story ! The days of our youth are the days of our glory. . . .' commented the same pallid gentleman. ' By Jove, what a memory he 's got ! and all from Byron... | |
 | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - 1899 - 344 էջ
...smile ; no doubt, many of us since then have turned out pretty cads ! But youth . . . youth. . . .' ' Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story ! The days of our youth are the days of our glory. . . .' commented the same pallid gentleman. ' By Jove, what a memory he 's got ! and all from Byron... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901 - 660 էջ
...Conversations of Lord Byron, 1824. pp. 331-338-] STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA.2 i. OH, talk not to me of a name great in story — The...two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.3 i. that I envy their dead. — [Medina.] ii. They're the heart— the free spirit— the genius... | |
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OH, talk not to me of a name great in story ; The days of our youth are the days of our glory ; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. 
