 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 3361885Full view - About this book
 | 1872 - 502 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Rose Porter - 1872 - 328 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... | |
 | Charles Buxton - 1872 - 368 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... | |
 | Living voices - 1873 - 586 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Randall - 1873 - 258 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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