 | 1866 - 792 pages
...us this, and stir up in our hearts the feeling that drew forth those golden verses of the poet, — I slept and dreamed that life was beauty, I woke and found that life was duty,— Was then thy dream a shadowy lie ? Toil on sad heart courageously, And thou shalt find thy life to be A... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...whirlwind then ; Though slow to move, moved all at once, A sea, a sea of men ! hNENLZLR ELLIOTT. DUTY. m dB &m). H then thy dream a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1880 - 686 pages
...occasions of great moment, the improvement of which contribute in no small degree to his ultimate success. "I slept, and dreamed that life was .beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty." gUTY rounds out the whole of life, from our entrance into it until our exit from it. There is the duty... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1880 - 466 pages
...and love. " I slept, and dreamed that Life was Beauty, I woke, and found that Life was Duty. Was my dream, then, a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, — And thou shall find thy dream shall be A noon-day light and truth to thee." Yes, for all duties, when thoroughly... | |
 | Louisa M. Hubbard - 1881 - 418 pages
...not not those feathers Into a bed, to sleep out all ill weathers.' Q JJERBERT ' I SLEPT, and dreamt that life was beauty ; I woke, and found that life...on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy life will be A noonday light and truth to thee.' JULIA GODUARD : The Search for the Graf. ' WHAT shall... | |
 | 1881 - 472 pages
...I slept and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke and found that life was duty : Was then thy dream a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously,...thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee." 1 have a friend who claims to be a philosopher; that is to say, he affects long hair and metaphysical... | |
 | 1881 - 590 pages
...hand with a will to the nearest work. This anonymous bit seems to be laden with a deep truth : — " I slept and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke and found that life was duty : Was then thy dream a shadowy lie ? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shah find thy dream to be... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - 1882 - 330 pages
...lying on the table beside her among other scraps in manuscript and print, the well-known lines, — " I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty ; I woke,...thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee." She knew them at a glance, had read them many times, but now they came home to her with sudden force,... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...Sea ¡Studies. Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still, r. HEBEB — Journal. e Epitaph. The social smile, the sympathetic tear....Klucation und Government. The craving for sympathy is s. ELLEN STUBQIS HOOPER— Duty. I am not aware that payment, or even favours, however gracious, bind... | |
 | 1882 - 408 pages
...that arises from praise undeserved, often makes us do things we would never otherwise have attempted. I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was my dream, then, a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shall find thy dream shall... | |
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I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee... 
