| 1887 - 168 páginas
...air benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. EMEKSON (Voluntaries). 83 BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,... | |
| Lucy Larcom - 1887 - 252 páginas
...in their inmost hearts, on the side of God, rather than their own, in this matter. JAHXS M AUTIMJAV. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. E. w. EMERSON. 21 April. Thou art not the more holy for being praised, nor the more worthless for being... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1887 - 300 páginas
...echoed farther than the song which chronicled it. Equally current is the stanza from Voluntaries : "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, ' I can." " . So, too, the famous lines from the Problem : " The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined... | |
| Gordon Augustus Southworth, Farley Brewer Goddard - 1887 - 414 páginas
...far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. SHAKESPEARE. 8. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. 9. William H. Prescott, John L. Motley, and George Bancroft are distinguished American historians.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 380 páginas
...air benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. IV. O, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1887 - 344 páginas
...War, there is one quatrain that stands out from the rest with startling distinctness and power : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." But perhaps the noblest of these affirmations of the absolute obligation of men to follow their... | |
| 1887 - 616 páginas
...the lips of the man whose boyhood knew privations. How many young minds have leapt at the words, " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The soul replies, / can !" How many, also, have felt their pulses thrill with the exultant words of that... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1887 - 360 páginas
...War, there is one quatrain that stands out from the rest with startling distinctness and power : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, ^ When Duty whispers low, Thou must, 2 The youth replies, / can." But perhaps the noblest of these affirmations of the absolute obligation... | |
| Gordon Augustus Southworth - 1887 - 122 páginas
...beams I So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 8. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, SHAKESPEARE. So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. 9. William H. Prescott, John L. Motley, and George Bancroft are distinguished American historians.... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1894 - 900 páginas
...same ungrudging sacrifice of all for them, if the need come. " How nigh is grandeur to our dust, How near is God to man ! When Duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " Emerson was a New Engländer in every fibre, and it is the soul of New England that speaks in his... | |
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