 | 1904 - 696 pages
...free ! EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. FROM THE HARVARD COMMEMORATION ODE. July 21, 1865. LIFE may be given in many ways, And loyalty to Truth...beside her. When craven churls deride her, To front a line in arms and not to yield, This shows, methinks, God's plan And measure of a stalwart man, Limbed... | |
 | 1904 - 604 pages
...bring our handful of flowers and bend the knee to Death, the over-lord of earth, murmuring the while: "Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to truth...the closet as the field, So bountiful is Fate." But no thought like that occurred to the founders of Memorial Day. And now that the time has come when... | |
 | Mary Eleanor Barrows - 1904 - 468 pages
...yourself. Your mother may be glad to learn that I had shad for breakfast and thought lovingly of her. "Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth...in the closet as the field ; so bountiful is Fate.' The 'field' here referred to is the ball field, and the meaning is: 'Be faithful to your books and... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1904 - 896 pages
...than to think. Coieper. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. Emenon. 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. Lowell. It should be remembered that it is only great soula that know how much glory... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1904 - 890 pages
...than to think. Cowper. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. Emerson. 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. L}well. It should be remembered that it is only great souls that know how much glory... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 634 pages
...not been called on to furnish their splendid quota to save the country, — in Lowell's words, — " To stand beside her When craven churls deride her To front a lie in arms, and not to yield; " nor had Holmes made his terrible appeal in " Never or Now! " Yet later, in the dark days when Emerson... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 686 pages
...not been called on to furnish their splendid quota to save the country, — in Lowell's words, — " To stand beside her When craven churls deride her To front a lie in arms, and not to yield; " nor had Holmes made his terrible appeal in " Never or Now! " Yet later, in the dark days when Emerson... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 638 pages
...not been called on to furnish their splendid quota to save the country, — in Lowell's words, — " To stand beside her When craven churls deride her To front a lie in arms, and not to yield; " nor had Holmes made his terrible appeal in " Never or Now ! ' ' Yet later, in the dark days when... | |
 | 1905 - 252 pages
...youth ; Give me thy life, or cower in empty phrase, 135 The victim of thy genius, not its mate ! " Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to Truth...bravely in the closet as the field, So bountiful is Fate ; 140 But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms and not to... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 730 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...in the closet as the field, So bountiful is Fate; 140 But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms and not to... | |
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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... 
