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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 Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1878 - 688 pages
...the state. Not once or twice in our rough islandstory, The path of duty was the way to glory : lie that 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. Not once or twice in our...
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Pilgrims heavenward: essays

Frederick Arnold - 1878 - 428 pages
...path of duty has its own peculiar glory : " He that walks in it, only thirsting For the right, arid 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. He that, ever following...
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The Bible Christian magazine, a continuation of the Arminian magazine

Bible Christians - 1878 - 598 pages
...own supposed interests, but by a policy of justice and generosity and fairness to other nations. " Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the path of glory." THE BIBLE CHRISTIANS IN AUSTRALASIA. THE Bible Christians established themselves in...
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The Dovorian

Dover coll - 1883 - 326 pages
...the words which we were taught to remember at Wellington College, you will see that " Not once nor twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory." CR HAINES. SNOOKSON'S SPEECH: By Himself. I am, or rather till quito recently I was, а most important...
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Sermons to naval cadets, by J.N.D.

John Neale Dalton - 1879 - 202 pages
...even a glory that you may dream but dimly of at present. 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 Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

1879 - 524 pages
...cures 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 it, only thirstmg For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey eloses, He shall find...
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Episodes of Anglo-Indian History: A Series of Chapters from the Annals of ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 406 pages
...glorious and stainless memory, which must ever be one of his country's most precious inheritances. 'Not once or twice in our rough island. story The path of duty — ' has been for Lawrence, and for men like Lawrence, — ' — the path of glory.' Having relieved...
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The secret of success; or, How to get on in the world

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pages
...uppermost in all my serious doings." It echoes and approves the poet's saying, " The path of duty is the way to glory " : — ' ' He that walks it, only...journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which out-redden All voluptuous garden-roses." CHAPTER III. A STEADY...
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Boys and their ways, by one who knows them

Boys - 1880 - 362 pages
...savours of aloes ! Or, to adopt Tennyson's image — " He that walks it "— ie, the path of duty— " He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and...journey closes He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. " Ask yourselves, ye who...
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Duty: With Illustrations of Courage, Patience and Endurance

Samuel Smiles - 1880 - 460 pages
...SMILES, LL.D. AUTHOR OF 'LIVES OF THE ENGINEERS/ 'SELF-HELP, 'CHARACTER ' 'THRIFT/ ETC. Not once nor twice in our rough island story, The path of Duty was the way to glory. The stern behests of Duty, TENNYSON. The doom-books open thrown, The heaven ye seek, the hell ye fear,...
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