History of Bowdoin College: With Biographical Sketches of Its Graduates, from 1806 to 1879, InclusiveJ. R. Osgood & Company, 1882 - 905 halaman |
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Academy active admitted Andover Appleton appointed Augusta Bangor became Benjamin Orr Biddeford Board born in Portland Boston Bowdoin College Bridgton brother Brunswick Bucksport charge CHARLES Christian classmate Cleaveland Congregational Church Conn County Court Dartmouth College daugh death died duties elected engaged father fitted for college four friends Fryeburg Gardiner George Gorham graduation he taught Hallowell Harvard Harvard College held HENRY High School honor John Judge Kennebunk labor leaving college lectures Legislature Lewiston living Maine married Miss Mass Massachusetts Medical School ministry native town Norridgewock opened an office ordained Overseers pastor Portland position practice preached president Prof profession professor published read law Readfield received removed resigned returned Saco Samuel Senate settled Society soon South Berwick studied law study of law successful teacher teaching Theological Seminary theological study Thomaston three daughters tion took Topsham trustee Waldoboro Waterville wife William Wiscasset York
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Halaman 315 - Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales ; Goethe, at Weimar, toiling to the last, •' Completed Faust when eighty years were past. These are indeed exceptions; but they show How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.
Halaman 262 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Halaman 301 - In vain the silent man imbibed aesthetic tea. Whatever fancies it inspired did not flower at his lips. But there was a light in his eye which assured me that nothing was lost. So supreme was his silence that it presently engrossed me to the exclusion of everything else. There was very brilliant discourse, but this silence was much more poetic and fascinating. Fine things were said by the philosophers, but much finer things were implied by the dumbness of this gentleman with heavy brows and black...
Halaman 315 - CEdipus, and Simonides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers, When each had numbered more than fourscore years, And Theophrastus, at fourscore and ten, Had but begun his Characters of Men. Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were pa'st.
Halaman 310 - was the gladiators' cry In the arena, standing face to face With death and with the Roman populace. O ye familiar scenes, — ye groves of pine, That once were mine and are no longer mine, — Thou river, widening through the meadows green To the vast sea, so near and yet unseen, — Ye halls, in whose seclusion and repose Phantoms of fame, like exhalations, rose And vanished, — we who are about to die, Salute you...
Halaman 316 - Coloneus, or Greek Ode, Or tales of pilgrims that one morning rode Out of the gateway of the Tabard 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.
Halaman 311 - Purse, That holds the treasures of the universe! All possibilities are in its hands, No danger daunts it, and no foe withstands; In its sublime audacity of faith, "Be thou removed!
Halaman 873 - ... devise or otherwise, any lands, tenements or other estate, real or personal [provided, that the clear annual income of the same shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars].1 SECT.
Halaman 873 - And the said corporation are further empowered to purchase or erect, and keep in repair, such houses and other buildings as they shall judge necessary for the said College ; and also to make and ordain, as occasion may require, reasonable rules, orders, and by-laws, not repugnant to the Constitution and Laws of this Commonwealth, with reasonable penalties, for the good government of the said College, and for the regulation of...
Halaman 103 - Commonwealth may grant any further powers to, or alter, limit, annul or restrain any of the powers by this act vested in the said corporation, as shall be judged necessary to promote the best interests of the said college...