It makes no difference how many friends I have and what content I can find in conversing with each, if there be one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. Essays - Page 166by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...if there be one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate...myself, if then I made my other friends my asylum. K " The valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once foiled, Is from the book... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...in their glory die. The fainful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foil'd, olden shields Thou lighted from his gorgeous throne, for now Twixt host and toil'd : Then happy I, that love and am belov'd, Where I may not remove, nor be remov'd. XX VI. Lord... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...if there be one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate myself, if then I made my othel friends my asylum. " The valiant warrior famoused for fight, After a hundred victories, once... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1877 - 652 pages
...old age — • The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand victories — once foil'd, Is from the book of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd." To say the truth, in this instance as in so many others, the great moral of the retribution... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the books son SemulXXY. SHAKESPEARE. COURAGE AND FEAR. He called so loud that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the books of honor razed quite. And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. Sh. Son. 25. WASHINGTON. Washington's a watchword such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...buried, For at a frown they in their glory die. The painful warrior famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is from the book of honor razed...quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. Then happy I, that love and am beloved. Where I may not remove nor be removed. WHEN in disgrace with... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...The painful warrior, famoused for fight, After a thousand victories once foiled, Is irorn the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. e. Sonnet XX V. 'Tis the soldier's life To have their balmy slumbers wak'd with strife. /. Othello.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...if there be one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in all the rest becomes mean and cowardly. I should hate...rebuked. Bashfulness and apathy are a tough husk in wkich a delicate organization is protected from premature ripening. It would be lost if it knew itself... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...if there be one to whom I am not equal. If I have shrunk unequal from one contest, the joy I find in asi honour razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toiled." Our impatience is thus sharply rebuked.... | |
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