 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1887 - 360 pages
...quatrain is a poem in itself, — an epic poem : " Though love repine, and reason chafe, There comes a voice without reply, — 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the trutit, he ought to die." The reason that such grand utterances as these thrill us with unwonted emotion... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 380 pages
...through snow, Where way is none, 't will creep and wind And eat through Alps its home to find. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — ' 'T is man's perdition to he safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES. WELL and wisely... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 230 pages
...virtue too easy. His writings are full of the loftiest lessons of renunciation. He it was who wrote : " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." " It is in vain," he says, " to make a paradise, but for good men. The resources of America and its... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1888 - 348 pages
...well as his prose, and has given us such choice morsels as we find in some of his quatrains : — " Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply: 'T is man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die." And this happy versification... | |
 | Charles Russell Richards, Henry P. O'Neil - 1889 - 258 pages
...strange ! The hero is an honest man — that's all : "Though love repine and reason chafe, There comes a voice without reply ; Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die. " | The gravest mistake of the schools is, their conception of education as a mere ornament, a polite... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 342 pages
...where a woman lies, I strew lilies on the grave Of the bravest of the brave. TW HlGGINSOH. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." BW EMERSON. INDEX TO NOTES. Abjuring, 83. Adamantine, 182. Aften, 71. Agincourt, 53, 165. Alban kings,... | |
 | 1890 - 880 pages
...all. Some time during those seven years of solitude and torment, he awoke to the great fact that " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Mere existence he could purchase with the base coin of cowardice or casuistry ; but that would be,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1890 - 382 pages
...find. SACEIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — ' 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' PEEICLES. WELL and wisely said the Greek, Be thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
 | 1890 - 596 pages
...can do now.'1 " Though lore repine, and reason chafe. There comes a Toice without reply, — ' ' 1'is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' " VII. THE IDEAL IN EDUCATION. BY PROF. RC SCHIEDT. FEW words are used as vaguely as the word ideal.... | |
 | Helen Arnold - 1892 - 84 pages
...what I can speak. 14. 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear. 15. It is good for us to be here. 16. 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die. 17. In a false quarrel there is no true valor. 18. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods. 19. There... | |
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Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply: " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die. 
