 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
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...cares not to be great, But as he saves or serves the state. Not once or twice in our rough islandstory, g 4 bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. Not once or twice in our... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1881 - 742 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...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 - 1881 - 502 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, only thirsting [•'or the right, and learns to deaden i^ove of self, before his journey closes, Pie shall find the... | |
 | John Philip - 1881 - 184 pages
...indomitable courage been re-duplicated in the events and annals of British history. " Not once nor twice in our rough island story, The path of Duty was the way to glory." TENNYSON. Once and again have we heard of British seamen, standing on the decks of their burning or... | |
 | sir Edmund William Gosse - 1881 - 308 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' the long gorge to the... | |
 | Arthur Compton Auchmuty - 1882 - 170 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... | |
 | British and foreign school society - 1872 - 668 pages
...opinion, in the long run, is tolerably just, notwithstanding its shortcomings. ' ' The path of duty is the way to glory ; He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Zoveo/self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples,... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1910 - 890 pages
...the United States and died of consumption at the age of 31, should yet rank with the immortals." " Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of doty was the way to glory." It has been from time to time a fashion to belittle the Puritans. It is... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1892 - 920 pages
...repeat : ' Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory. He who walks it only thirsting For the right and learns to...deaden Love of self, before his journey closes He shall see the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses.'... | |
 | 1922 - 986 pages
...he had in that poem praised war? It was duty, not glory, which his lines exalted: — Not once nor twice in our rough Island story. The path of duty was the path of glory. But at the same time, he once boasted, 'I have three times been taken into battle,'... | |
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