 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 pages
...were ten times slain, Crowns him victor glorified, — Victor over death and pain, Forever. HEROISM. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. BORROWING. FROM THE FRENCH. SOMF, of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...games, Forsake their comrades gay, And quit proud homes and youthful dames, For famine, toil, and fray? Yet on the nimble air benign Speed nimbler messages,...That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloHi and ease. So nigh is grandenr to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1877 - 370 pages
...it is repulsed, in that proportion tends more in its own natural direction." As Emerson says, — " Yet on the nimble air benign Speed nimbler messages,...Duty whispers low, 'THOU MUST,' The youth replies, ' I CAN.' " One more trait of the character of Musonius will show how deeply Epictetus respected him,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...were ten times slain, Crowns him victor glorified, — Victor over death and pain, . Forever. HEROISM. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. BORROWING. FROM THE FRENCH. SOME of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived,... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1877 - 252 pages
...this, will I ever believe that any boy, in this or in any school, has cause to say that he has failed. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to Man, When Duty whispers, low, " Thau must" The youth replies " lean." 2. But, secondly, while you work, you must remember that you... | |
 | dame Sophia Gertrude Wintz - 1878 - 230 pages
...Thee." CHAPTER II. SMALL BEGINNINGS. " Who hath despised the day of small things ? " — ZECH. iv. 10. " Yet on the nimble air benign Speed nimbler messages,...God to man, When Duty whispers low 'THOU MUST,' The Soul replies ' I CAN ! ' " —EMERSON. II. SOME of us who are lovers of mountain and moorland scenery... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1879 - 368 pages
...if the appeal had been made not to their selfishness and envy, but to their honor and their truth. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low Thou must, The heart replies I can." But if the preachers have of late been more reluctant than formerly to enter... | |
 | 1880 - 208 pages
...local habitation and a name. —Shakespeare: ''Midsummer Night's Dream" Act v, Sc. I. LIX.—HEROISM.* So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, ''Thou must" The youth replies, "/ can." —Ralph Waldo Emerson. LX.—OBEDIENCE. THREE roots bear up Dominion: Knowledge, Will,— These twain... | |
 | 1883 - 684 pages
...perfect harmony. The poet expressed this harmony from which arises the power to obey, when he said : " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...duty whispers low, ' Thou must!' The youth replies, 'lean!'" The perfect harmony of body and spirit knows no ill-health ; all sickness is sin, the effect... | |
 | William Salter - 1880 - 164 pages
...the Rocky Mountains for the American Home Missionary Society. BY WILLIAM SALTER. So close is glory to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. — Etnerson. .^BURLINGTON, IOWA: JAMES LOVE. COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO: MRS. SB PlCKETT. 1880.... | |
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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. 
