 | 1886 - 800 pages
...were written, seemed as if they had been carved on marble for a thousand years:" — • " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, TJioumwit, The youth replies, / can." ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. A friendly correspondent some time ago favored... | |
 | George Edward Jeans - 1886 - 146 pages
...fine words of Emerson, which are written up in the Hall of Marlborough College — " So close is glory to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." 1 Ps. cxxi. i. 2 Ps. xxiv. 3, 4. IV. CHRISTMAS.1 (Third Sunday in... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1887 - 344 pages
...is one quatrain that stands out from the rest with startling distinctness and power : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." But perhaps the noblest of these affirmations of the absolute obligation... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 380 pages
...benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. IV. O, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 pages
...farther than the song which chronicled it. Equally current is the stanza from Voluntaries : "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, ' I can." " . So, too, the famous lines from the Problem : " The hand that... | |
 | 1887 - 168 pages
...benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. EMEKSON (Voluntaries). 83 BY the rude bridge that arched the flood,... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - 1887 - 252 pages
...inmost hearts, on the side of God, rather than their own, in this matter. JAHXS M AUTIMJAV. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. E. w. EMERSON. 21 April. Thou art not the more holy for being praised,... | |
 | Gordon Augustus Southworth, Farley Brewer Goddard - 1887 - 422 pages
...little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. SHAKESPEARE. 8. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. 9. William H. Prescott, John L. Motley, and George Bancroft... | |
 | 1888 - 432 pages
...Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader vieAv. JG HOLLAND. DUTY. So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. A FAKEWELL. My fairest child, I have no song to give you;... | |
 | 1888 - 466 pages
...man is two-thirds will.— Schopenhauer. Politeness is benevolence in trifles.— Macaulay. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, "Thou must," The youth replies, "I can."— Anon. "Alas! it is not when we sleep soft and wake merrily ourselves... | |
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. 
