 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 oldal
...SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, I There came a voice without reply, — I ' '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... | |
 | 1919 - 644 oldal
...the inflexible and uncompromising course which he has pursued since last March ? HENRY LEE HIGGINSON Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." r|^HESE are the familiar lines which _I_ Henry Lee Higginson chose for an inscription to stand at the... | |
 | 1888 - 1008 oldal
...grandeur is our dust. So nigh is God to man, When Duty whispers low, then must, The youth replies, / can. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe. There came a voice without reply, — "V is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die ! For simple and pure delight... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1872 - 758 oldal
...morning I pick up a volume which has fallen to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Again : — Well and wisely said the Greek, Be 1.1 1 - ni faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot... | |
 | 1872 - 760 oldal
...morning I pick up a volume which has fallen to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Again : — Well and wisely said the Greek, Be thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - 826 oldal
...morning I pick up a volume which has fallen to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Again : — Well and wisely said the Greek, lie thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
 | Edward Augustus Warriner - 1875 - 420 oldal
...dublis libertas, in omnibus caritas." AUGUSTINE. " 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." EMERSON. BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. ff TIL::.:: i rx>AT:j:-"S E 1. HL Entered according to Act of Congress,... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 oldal
...remedies. It is the source of many evils, but also of much good; of an unspeakable courage and devotion. " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die.' And though apparently the amount of war does not diminish with the lapse of centuries, its occasions... | |
 | 1880 - 672 oldal
...might have written : " Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime." Notice the power of this quatrain : " Though love repine, and reason chafe, .There came...to be safe, "When for the truth he ought to die.' " The poem entitled " Brahma," too hastily ridiculed at first, is only a compact rendering of the leading... | |
 | Almira Leach Hayward - 1880 - 300 oldal
...strong. At thought of that insatiate grave From which its yearnings cannot save. WC Bryant. January 5. Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die." Jt. W. Emerson. Men's lives, like oceans, change In shifting tides, and ebb from either shore Till... | |
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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. 
