 | 1866 - 672 pages
...above Nature. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " ' I i - man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without. One is enthusiasm,... | |
 | 1866 - 662 pages
...and above Nature. 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." Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without. One is enthusiasm,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 pages
...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 pages
...course which he has pursued since last March ? HENRY LEE HIGGINSON 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." r|^HESE are the familiar lines which _I_ Henry Lee Higginson chose for an inscription to stand at the... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1872 - 758 pages
...to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : 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." Again : — Well and wisely said the Greek, Be 1.1 1 - ni faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot... | |
 | 1872 - 760 pages
...to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : 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." 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 pages
...to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : 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." Again : — Well and wisely said the Greek, lie thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
 | Edward Augustus Warriner - 1875 - 420 pages
...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 pages
...but also of much good; of an unspeakable courage and devotion. " 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.' And though apparently the amount of war does not diminish with the lapse of centuries, its occasions... | |
 | 1880 - 672 pages
...at eve obeyed at prime." Notice the power of this quatrain : " Though love repine, and reason chafe, .There came a voice without reply — ' 'Tis man's...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... | |
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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. 
