| 1837 - 538 pages
...different from that in the other. THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF LIFE. IT is a saying of Dr. Southey's, " that live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life." They appear so while they are passing, — they seem to have been so when we look... | |
| Ellen Wallace - 1840 - 954 pages
...time ! — from fifteen to nineteen, what a long eventful portion of one's life. Some one says that live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life." " Well," said Anne, " it does seem a long time since I was twelve." " I believe... | |
| Mary Milner - 1844 - 788 pages
...LIVERPOOL THE REV. DR. WOLFF. OMEBODY, — the late poet Laureate, I believe, — has j well said, " live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life." They are the I longest because they are so full of variety. To the k young everything... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1868 - 288 pages
...white radiance of eternity." — Shelley. " A man's life is an appendix to his heart." — South. " Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life." — Southey. " There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live... | |
| Harry Croswell - Clergy - 1854 - 550 pages
...speaketh." In a similar spirit he writes to his mother, and then adds, " It is ohserved hy Southey, that, live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of a man's life. And I know, hy experience, that there are no friends like those of that delightful... | |
| John Timbs - 1863 - 280 pages
...love and what by happiness."* THE FIRST TWENTY YEAES OF LIFE. It is a saying of Southey's, " that, live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing ; they seem to have been so when we look back... | |
| William Baldwin Affleck - Temperance - 1866 - 234 pages
...too often, has to pass away " unfurnished for the world to come." The wise Dr. Southey used to say, "Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life ; they appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back... | |
| Thomas Wemyss Brown - 1869 - 200 pages
...your career may be a failure, or a splendid success. These are true words of Eobert Southey, — " Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life." The life of Mr. Deans is not to be represented by a broken column. It was wonderfully... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1880 - 416 pages
...instantly laid hold of him, and kept him above water till assistance arrived, when his life was saved. " Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life." —Simtltey. а Сотр. Job xxi. 5, xxix. S, xl. 4. * " The Oriental mode of... | |
| James Stark - Christian life - 1889 - 202 pages
...sculptor has only one chance of turning his block of marble to account. Southey the poet says truly: "Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life." What do we expect in a young man ? INDEPENDENCE. Personality implies independence.... | |
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