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" The path of duty was the way to glory; He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses.... "
The Popular Science Monthly - Page 336
1885
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Living Unto God; Or, Chapters in Aid of the Christian Life

Living - 1867 - 284 pages
...duty, this is a source of unspeakable satisfaction. " Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory ; He that walks...learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey eloses, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous...
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Major-general Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth army corps

Augustus Woodbury - 1867 - 626 pages
...sagacious and skillful officer. His career is an additional illustration of the words of the poet: " The path of duty was the way to glory ; He that walks...only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Lovo of self, before his journey closes He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples,...
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The Churchman's shilling magazine and family treasury, conducted ..., Volume 16

Robert Hall Baynes - 1874 - 674 pages
...bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden roses. " Not once or twice in our fair island story The path of duty was the way to glory : He, that ever following her commands, On with toil of heart and knees and hands, Thro' th? long gorge to the...
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The Latter-Day Saints Millenial Star

f. d. richards - 1867 - 844 pages
...And if no heaven were promised hereafter, the heaven you will enjoy here will be divine. Not once nor twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the path of glory. He that follows it, only thirsting For the rieht, and leartiH to deaden Love. of self,...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 38

Henry Allon - 1863 - 550 pages
...obscurity an it was of the great Duke in his renown, that, ' Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory. He that walks...journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses.' It was not possible for...
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Poems, Volume 2

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 pages
...not to be great, But as he saves or serves the state. Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks...journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. Not once or twice in our...
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The Quest of the Chief Good: Expository Lectures on the Book Ecclesiastes ...

Samuel Cox - 1867 - 348 pages
...leave the future with God, will live a happy because a useful life. He that walks this path of duty only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden...journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden roses. The path may often be difficult...
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A Study of the Works of Alfred Tennyson

Edward Campbell Tainsh - 1868 - 262 pages
...wonderfully condensed or more wonderfully vivid. Then the jubilant, march-like movement of the couplet — " Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory," — leads up to the good hope— " Till in all lands, and through all human story, The path of duty...
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A Smaller History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Year 1862

Philip Smith - 1868 - 394 pages
...remember, but which can be in part conceived by those who saw the victor of Waterloo laid beside him. " Not once or twice, in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.1' Not even the victory of Trafalgar and the blood of Nelson could save Europe. Eager to chastise...
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Medical education and medical interests

Isaac Ashe - 1868 - 200 pages
...secure or maintain any real or durable private advantage ; and hence it has followed that " Not once nor twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory." Mutual dependence is the principle upon which every individual stone of the social arch is laid, and...
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