 | Louis James Block - 1893 - 106 pages
...sun set, but set not his hope; Stars rose ; his faith was earlier up ; Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye; And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. EMERSON. f THE MAN. I. Who knows the secret of the sunrise? who Shall say what splendor of the exhaustless... | |
 | John White Chadwick - 1893 - 100 pages
...The good books as well as the good people received their careful and discriminating meed of praise. "He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the age of gold again": the oratory of Everett and Phillips ; the readings of Charles Dickens ; the lectures of Thackeray and... | |
 | Benjamin Ellis Martin - 1894 - 250 pages
...galaxy, Deeper and older seemed bis eye : And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. lie spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the Age...reverence sweet, As hid all measure of the feat." — EMERSON. " Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us, indifferent... | |
 | 1894 - 136 pages
...sun set, but not his hope : — Stars rose, his faith was earlier up : Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye, And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of Time. EMERSON. 76 "LET ME GO WHERE'ER I WILL." LET me go where'er I will, I hear P sky-born music still :... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1894 - 204 pages
...control a happy future. " The sun set, but not his hope ; Stars rose, — his faith was earlier up ; His action won such reverence sweet As hid all measure of the feat." All lives that are in the best sense worth the living are so by virtue of being true to their own polarity.... | |
 | Louis James Block - 1895 - 226 pages
...sun set, but set not his hope; Stars rose ; his faith was earlier up ; Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye ; And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. —EMERSON. THE MAN. j. "\ XT HO knows the secret of the sunrise ? who Shall say what splendor of the... | |
 | 1896 - 418 pages
...for June, 1890, and " Literature in School," by HE Scudder, in the Riverside Literature Series. *' He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the...reverence sweet, As hid all measure of the feat." CHAPTER XIV. MORAL PROGRESS. THE first place where we learn about the moral laws is, of course, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...sun set, but set not his hope : Stars rose ; his faith was earlier up : Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye ; And matched his...such reverence sweet As hid all measure of the feat. w * Although these lines were suggested by the character of Emerson's brother, Edward Bliss Emerson,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 pages
...Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye ; And matched his sufferance sublime s The taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more...such reverence sweet As hid all measure of the feat. 10 * Although these lines were suggested by the character of Emerson's brother, Edward Bliss Emerson,... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1898 - 440 pages
...bring back a fact, caring only for truth, candid as a still lake, expectant, unfettered, and tireless. Work of his hand He nor commends nor grieves: Pleads...fact; As unrepenting Nature leaves Her every act. The achievements of scientific inquirers, animated by this spirit of sincerity and truth, have been... | |
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CHARACTER The sun set; but set not his hope: Stars rose; his faith was earlier up: Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye: And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought... 
