One would like to know more of that race, now extinct, whose seines lie rotting in the garrets of their children, who openly profe...ssed the trade of fishermen, and even fed their townsmen creditably, not skulking through the meadows to a rainy afternoon sport. Dim visions we still get of miraculous draughts of fishes, and heaps uncountable by the riverside, from the tales of our seniors sent on horseback in their childhood from the neighboring towns, perched on saddle-bags, with instructions to get the one bag filled with shad, the other with alewives. At least one memento of those days may still exist in the memory of this generation, in the familiar appellation of a celebrated train-band of this town, whose untrained ancestors stood creditably at Concord North Bridge. Their captain, a man of piscatory tastes, having duly warned his company to turn out on a certain day, they, like obedient soldiers, appeared promptly on parade at the appointed time, but, unfortunately, they went undrilled, except in the manvres of a soldier's wit and unlicensed jesting, that May day; for their captain, forgetting his own appointment, and warned only by the favorable aspect of the heavens, as he had often done before, went a-fishing that afternoon, and his company thenceforth was known to old and young, grave and gay, as "The Shad."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways:... Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise; why shouldest thou destroy thyself? Be not over much wicked, neither b...e thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today brings the sad, glad tidings that Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has passed from that darkness which had fallen upon her path through ...this life, out into the light and joy of that life toward which her vision has so long been strained. Modern education is lethal to children.... We stuff them with mathematics, we pummel them with science, and we use them up before their time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cann...ot die wretchedly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the... boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before I had my first child, I never really looked forward in anticipation to the future. As I watched my son grow and learn, I be...gan to imagine the world this generation of children would live in. I thought of the children they would have, and of their children. I felt connected to life both before my time and beyond it. Children are our link to future generations that we will never see.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time... Moping melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anxious to publicise and pay our dues Contracted here, we, Bernard Noel Hughes... And Philip Arthur Larkin, do desire To requite and to reward those whom we choose; To thank our friends, before our time expire, And those whom, if not friends, we yet admire.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »