 | James Russell Lowell - 1905 - 148 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 - 738 pages
...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; i4o But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her, To front a lie in arms and not to... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1905 - 148 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 HIDDE PAGE - 1905 - 746 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 be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field, thy truth; So bountiful is Fate ; 140 But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her,... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - 1905 - 740 pages
...of thy youth; Give me thy life, or cower in empty phra». The victim of thy genius, not its mate ! ' Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to Truth be scaled As bravely in the closet as the field, So bountiful is Fate; if, But then to stand beside her,... | |
 | Edward Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 560 pages
...public affairs to the highest standards ; for he had learned at home, at his father's knee, that ' Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to truth...be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field.' "For the last twenty years and more he has been a leader of those who built up the great and complex... | |
 | 1907 - 476 pages
...feeling of reverence, of gratitude, and guide all the longings of our hearts aright. Amen. JOSHUA YOUNG. Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to truth be sealed As bravely in the doset as th( field, So bountiful is fate; But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride hert... | |
 | Grace Norton - 1908 - 258 pages
...plaisir fade et nuisible d'avoir affaire à gens qui nous admirent et facent place. JR LOWELL (1819-1891) Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to Truth...in the closet as the field, So bountiful is Fate. Commemoration Ode. 1865. MONTAIGNE, Livre I, 24 (23). [The writer is speaking of an old factotum.]... | |
 | Mary Allette Ayer - 1908 - 212 pages
...Robert Browning. TVTEVER mind happiness, that is God's gift to a few ; do your duty. — Carey. T IFE may be given in many ways, And loyalty to truth be sealed As bravely in the closet as the field. — Anon. A CHRISTIAN'S experience is like a rainbow, made up of drops of the grief of earth, and beams... | |
 | 1908 - 446 pages
...to commemorate the living and her ninety-three heroic dead which closed •with this ode by Lowell. Life may be given in many ways, And loyalty to Truth be sealed As bravely in the closet as in the field, So bountiful is Fate; But then to stand beside her, When craven churls deride her, 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... 
