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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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The Shipwrecked mariner

1872 - 504 pages
...circumstances, remembering the noble lines of the poet — " Not once or twice in oui' 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 out-redden All voluptuous garden-roses. Not once or twice in our...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 pages
...cares 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...Love of self, before his journey closes He shall find tin; siubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. Not...
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Uplands and Lowlands: Or, Three Chapters in a Life

Rose Porter - 1872 - 326 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, Or with toil of heart, and knees, and hands, Through the long gorge to...
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Memoirs of sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, baronet, with selections from his ...

Charles Buxton - 1872 - 366 pages
...to do right is the truest prudence, than the great deed of emancipation. " Not once or twice, In onr rough Island story, The path of duty was the way to glory." And in her dealings with the negro race, both in the West Indies and in Africa, England having " only...
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Living voices, selections chiefly from recent poetry [compiled by E. Spooner].

Living voices - 1873 - 588 pages
...looks this soul of mine ! LONGFELLOW. THE PATH OF DUTY. 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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A Smaller History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Year 1868

Philip Smith - 1873 - 408 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." Not even the victory of Trafalgar and the blood of Nelson conld save Europe. Eager to chastise Austria,...
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Old Sports and Sportsmen; Or, The Willey Country

John Randall - 1873 - 256 pages
...— Boney and Beacons — The Squire in a Rage — The Duke of York and Prince of Orange came down. " Not once or twice, in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory." WE fancy there was a greater community of feeling in Squire Forester's day than now, and that whether...
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Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1873 - 528 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 it, oply thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall...
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The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Issue 837, Volume 4

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1874 - 200 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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Footsteps to Fame: A Book to Open Other Books

James Hain Friswell - 1874 - 370 pages
...Yea ! let all good things await Him who cares not to bo great, But as he serves or saves the Stato. Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory : IIo that walks it only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey...
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