| James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 páginas
...with the silver in his hands; ' Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. Tis as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers' graves,... | |
| 1880 - 918 páginas
...; where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; AVhile the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return...up the scattered ashes into history's golden urn. "It has been said of those who fell fighting in a just and holy cause, that the consciousness of right... | |
| John Morrison Davidson - 1880 - 274 páginas
...wilderness, if need be, alone : — " Far in front the Cross stands ready, And the crackling faggots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday In silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes Into History's sacred urn." Mr. Mundella has likewise a curious disposition to adorn his conversation with quite unnecessary... | |
| Jennie Fowler Willing - 1880 - 254 páginas
...Judas, with the silver in his hands, Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes for history's golden urn." A picture of Florence Nightingale represents her by the bedside of a dying... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 páginas
...: where today the martyr stands, Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, 'Tie as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers'... | |
| Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 176 páginas
...with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready, and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return,...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. They have rights who dare maintain them ; we are traitors to our sires, Smothering in their holy ashes... | |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage - 1881 - 1018 páginas
...with the silver In his hands. Far iu front the cross stands ready, and the crackling fragments born, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return,...up the scattered ashes Into history's golden urn. And again — Careless seems the great avenger ; history's pages but record Truth forever on the scuflold,... | |
| 1881 - 322 páginas
...be equally true in the case of literary work and literary men. "The hooting mob of j-esterday may, in silent awe, return. To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn." There is, therefore, nothing antecedently improbable in the prediction already quoted from Matthew... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 páginas
...Judas with the silver in his hands ; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. 'T is as easy to be heroes as to sit the idle slaves Of a legendary virtue carved upon our fathers'... | |
| Charles Samuel Eby - 1883 - 324 páginas
...sublime march of humanity, the progress of which no earthly power can stay or successfully resist. For Humanity sweeps onward : where to-day the martyr...up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. Ladies and Gentlemen, it only remains for me to introduce my greatly valued friend Mr. Eby, who will... | |
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