| Augustus Woodbury - 1867 - 626 páginas
...sagacious and skillful officer. His career is an additional illustration of the words of the poet: " The path of duty was the way to glory ; He that walks...only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Lovo of self, before his journey closes He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 520 páginas
...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...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,... | |
| Henry Allon - 1863 - 550 páginas
...obscurity an it was of the great Duke in his renown, that, ' Not once or twice in our rough island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory. He that walks...Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses.' It was not possible for Gotthelf, with his human sympathies and his strong nationality,... | |
| Samuel Cox - 1867 - 348 páginas
...leave the future with God, will live a happy because a useful life. He that walks this path of duty only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden...purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden roses. The path may often be difficult and steep ; it may be overhung with threatening rocks and strewed with... | |
| 1868 - 504 páginas
..."Not once nor twice in our proud nation's story The path of duty was the way to glory. He that treads it, only thirsting for the right, And learns to deaden love of self, Before his journey closes, He should find the stubborn thistle Bursting into glossy purples, Which out-redden all voluptuous garden... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1869 - 186 páginas
...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 fiiid the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses.... | |
| Stella S. Flood Coatsworth - 1869 - 478 páginas
...serves the State. Not once, or twice, ere our own country's story, The path of duty was the path of glory : He that walks it, only thirsting For the right,...shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purple, which out-redden All voluptuous golden roses." CHAPTER II. TIIE PURPORT OF THE BOOK. Our War—... | |
| Frederick Arnold - 1869 - 414 páginas
...are, indeed, enabled to discern that this path of duty has its own peculiar glory : " He that walks iu it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden...self, before his journey closes He shall find the stuhhorn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptuous garden-roses. He that,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1870 - 264 páginas
...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...bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden All voluptnous garden-roses. Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to... | |
| 1870 - 956 páginas
...assurances to the contrary, there is no royal road to learning — that path is rough and thorny ; but — " He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before the journey closes He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which outredden... | |
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