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Updated: June 3, 2025
No line of Lowell's has been more often quoted in this hall than the line about the futility of attempting to open the "Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key." Those words were written in 1844.
New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Lo! before us gleam her watch fires We ourselves must pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly Through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the future's portal With the past's blood-rusted key."
I wanted to keep them also in that dim and dear kind past. For we must be discreet as well as grateful-hearted if we would enjoy the Past's full gifts.... The Past's gifts; and to these I would add, or among them rather I would include, an item which I find a difficulty in naming properly, and which, of course, I hesitate a little to speak about. I mean the gifts, odd as it sounds, of Death.
"The past's the past and we aren't going to say no more about it, and now you've turned over a new leaf somehow I can't feel you're the same person don't go worrying yourself about that slut Jenny. She's all right. After your baby was born at her mother's, she went into service at Llanelly and there she met a miner who's at work on the new coal mine in Gower.
'Oh, nonsense, said Anthea, pouring out; 'it was all settled hundreds of years ago. 'I don't know, said Cyril. 'Jam, please. This about time being only a thingummy of thought is very confusing. If everything happens at the same time 'It CAN'T! said Anthea stoutly, 'the present's the present and the past's the past. 'Not always, said Cyril.
There are many other traditions beside, which constitute the past's legacy to the solitary city near the Portuguese frontier. It was in the nineteenth century that Ciudad Rodrigo earned fame as a brave city. The Spanish war for independence had broken out against the French, who overran the country, and passed from Bayonne in the Gascogne to Lisbon in Portugal.
Why should I? Past's dead, and damn the Future. Dig, pass the brandy." "And I tell you," said Barnabas, "that in the future are hope and the chance of a new life, once you are free of Gaunt." "Free of Gaunt! Hark to that, Dig. Must be dev'lish drunk to talk such cursed f-folly!
It's really not any good our going into the Past looking for that Amulet. The Past's as full of different times as as the sea is of sand. We're simply bound to hit upon the wrong time. We might spend our lives looking for the Amulet and never see a sight of it. Why, it's the end of September already. It's like looking for a needle in
Aminta was a lady blooming in the flesh, Browny was the past's pale phantom; for which reason he could call her his own, without harm done to any one, and with his usual appetite for dinner, breakfast, lunch, whatever the meal supplied by the hour. It would somewhat alarmingly have got to Mr.
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