 | Phillips Brooks - 1896 - 394 pages
...learning more and more forever that faith and obedience are the glory and crown of human life. VI. too. Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to Truth...methinks, God's plan And measure of a stalwart man. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. HOW in a time like this can a man live and get the best out of it, and at the... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - 1896 - 394 pages
...learning more and more forever that faith and obedience are the glory and crown of human life. VI. 1oo. Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to Truth...methinks, God's plan And measure of a stalwart man. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. • HOW in a time like this can a man live and get the best out of it, and at... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 528 pages
...youth; but this,^hy jife, or cower in empty phrase, of wit ijktim Of tny genins, not its mate ! " ""Vfe may be given in many ways, ™"And loyalty to Truth...front a lie in arms and not to yield, This shows, muthinks, God's plan And measure of a stalwart man, Limbed like the old heroic breeds, Who stands self-poised... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 530 pages
...of thy youth; Give me thy life, or cower in empty phrase, The victim of thy genius, not its mate ! " Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to Truth...beside her, When craven churls deride her, To front a He in arms and not to yield, This shows, methinks, God's plan And measure of a stalwart man, Limbed... | |
 | George Homer Emerson - 1896 - 614 pages
...the kingdom of heaven's sake. No man better deserved the splendid praise of Lowell's lines : — " Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to truth...bravely in the closet as the field, So bountiful is fate ; Bnt then to stand beside her When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms, and not to yield,... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1896 - 344 pages
...and mailed, 1 With sweet, stern face unveiled, And all-repaying eyes, look proud on them in death. Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to Truth...be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field, So generous is fate; But then to stand beside her When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms... | |
 | 1896 - 752 pages
...worthies of the Revolution to whom posterity owes a greater debt. "Life," says the poet Lowell, — "may be given in many ways, And loyalty to truth be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field." That Jay had the true heroic spirit is shown by an episode of his life in college. A number of his... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1896 - 750 pages
...worthies of the Revolution to whom posterity owes a greater debt. "Life," says the poet Lowell, — "may be given in many ways, And loyalty to truth be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field." That Jay had the true heroic spirit is shown by an episode of his life in college. A number of his... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 pages
...country. 172— TRIBUTES TO LINCOLN. THE MARTYR CHIEF. From Lowell's Harvard Commemoration Ode, l8bj. Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to Truth...be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field, So generous is Fate ; But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms,... | |
 | 1898 - 682 pages
...minds in his true position — one of the two greatest Americans. They can now repeat with fervor: "Life may be given In many ways, And loyalty to truth...beside her When craven churls deride her, To front a He In arms and not to yield. This shows, methinks, God's plan And measure of a stalwart man, Limbed... | |
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Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to Truth be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field, So bountiful is Fate ; But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms and not to yield, This shows, methinks, God's... 
