 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...old systems with a thunder-fit. The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe for change : 5 Then let it come. I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct...more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, 10 With endless change, is fitted to the hour ; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...old systems with a thunder- fit. The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change ; Then let it come : I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind : Nor think I that God's worM will fall apart, Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence... | |
 | 430 pages
...physical and mental progress, and their mutual dependence on each other. There can be no doubt that Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour ; a fact from which we indirectly deduce a wide lesson of charity, — that he whose mind is so shapcn... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change ; Then let it come : I have no dread of what Is call'd for by the instinct of mankind ; Nor think I that...endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turn'd forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not ihe past. He who would win the name of truly... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come : I have no dread of what Is call'd for by the instinct of mankind ; Nor think I that...endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turn'd forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. He who would win the name of truly... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change ; Then let it come : I have no dread of what Is call'd for by the instinct of mankind ; Nor think I that God's world will fall apart Beeause we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come : I have no dread of what Is call'd for by the instinct of mankind ; Nor think I that...world will fall apart Because we tear a parchment tnore or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1873 - 860 pages
...little of professions and much of fruits, asserting the largest liberty of thought and speech, having " no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind ; Nor think they that God's world will fall apart. Because we tear a parchment more or less ; and rationally believing... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...shakes old systems with a thunderfit. The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change ; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct...we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, bu*. her effluence, With endless change is fitted to the hour ; Her mirror is turned forward to reflect... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...well-plough'd field, And the soul feels it has not wept in vain. — Bmar. 3393. TRUTH. Progress of along the main. — Pope. Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent, as turn'd forward to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. He who would win the name of truly... | |
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The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change ; Then let it come : I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind ; Nor think I that God's world will fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. 
