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
| 1876 - 564 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...journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. Not once or twice in our... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1875 - 494 pages
...cares not to be great, But as he saves or serves the state. Not once or twice in our rough islandstory, The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks...to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, Heshallfind the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses.... | |
| Newton Abbot College - 1875 - 354 pages
...plangit militis, Et signa franguntur deum : Et vis neque ulla dissipata cuspide, Visu Jehovae solvitur. "Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of ditty aus the way " da cor, ch'alto destin non scelse, \J Son 1'imprese magnanime neglette ; Ma le... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1876 - 452 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... | |
| CHARLOTTE M. YONGE - 1876 - 652 pages
...inform SM who is the author of the following lines ?— 1 The path of duty in the way to glory : He who walks It, only thirsting For the right, and learns...Journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden % All voluptuous garden roses.' S. 0. wishes to purchase,... | |
| Our valley - 1877 - 274 pages
...hadn't nothing against yer ; it was only them engines, and now I loikes them too '' CHAPTER XIII. " Not once or twice in our rough island story The path...journey closes He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden roses." IVE years had passed away... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1877 - 494 pages
...cares not to be great, But as he saves or serves the state. Not once or twice in our rough islandstory, The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks...to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, Heshall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses.... | |
| Alfred Gregory - 1877 - 236 pages
...than earthly sense his life and labours are one more illustration in proof of Tennyson's couplet,— " Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory." 1'INIS. Huell, Watson, and Viney, Printers, London and Aylesbury. 14 A SELECTION FROM THE WORKS PUBLISHED... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1877 - 402 pages
...bursting Into glossy purples, which eutredden 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' the long gorge to the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1878 - 194 pages
...not to be great, But as he saves or serves the state. Not onc'e 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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