 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 380 pages
...find. SACRIFICE. 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.' PERICLES. WELL and wisely said the Greek, Be thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...through snow, Where way is none, 'twill 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 be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES. WELL and wisely... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...through snow, Where way is none, 'twill 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 be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES. WELL and wisely... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...through snow, Where way is none, 'twill 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 be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES. WELI, and wisely... | |
 | 1884 - 506 pages
...is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." Or again this : — " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' " Excellent ! but how seldom do we get from him a strain blown so clearly and firmly ! Take another... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 344 pages
...through snow* Where way is none, 'twill creep and wind And eat through Alps its home to find. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES. WELL and wisely said the Greek, Be thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1884 - 524 pages
...is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." Or again this : — " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply : ' 'Tis man's perdition to be sate, When for the truth he ought to die.' " Excellent ! but how seldom do we get from him a strain... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1884 - 394 pages
...— JUDGES v. 18. 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. RW EMERSON. COME say that the age of chivalry is past. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1884 - 402 pages
...people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field. — JUDGES v. 18. 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. RW EMERSON. COME say that... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 234 pages
...is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.' Or again this : — ' Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." ' Excellent ! but how seldom do we get from him a strain blown so clearly and firmly ! Take another... | |
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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. 
