Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified,... The poetical works - Página 189por James Russell Lowell - 1904Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Theodore Parker - 1875 - 336 páginas
...I will not wait till they are dead and classic before I call them so and honour them as such, for " To side with truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause hring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the... | |
| Hermann Krüsi - 1875 - 260 páginas
...very foundation of its existence. He most heroically verified the truth of the poet, when he says : "To side with truth is noble, When we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause brings fame and profit, And 'tis prosperous to be just." In 1826, Hon. James C. Carter, of Massachusetts,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 páginas
...pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth foiever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, —...wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting... | |
| 1876 - 204 páginas
...greater — greater in proportion to its need of friends and the amount of work to be accomplished. "To side with truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit and 'tis prosperous to be just. Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 páginas
...earth with blood, Famished in his self-made desert, blinded by our purer day, Gropes in yet nnblasted regions for his miserable prey ; — Shall we guide...cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to Ы1 just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 páginas
...a prince, a hero, greater ; He will be man in likeness of his Maker ! Mrs Hall. 1803. HEROES. True ese fleeting moments caught For glory or for shame....Hannah F. Gould. 2585. OBSERVATION. Points of THERE 'tis prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1879 - 592 páginas
...enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin." Slavery, the earth-bom Cyclops, feilest of the giant brood, Sons of brutish Force and Darkness,...wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and Ч is prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting... | |
| 1879 - 644 páginas
...its realization let me give you in the words of one of our greatest and most inspiring singers : — Then to side with truth is noble, when we share her...wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting... | |
| 1880 - 592 páginas
...the office go by without any man as an attachment. Are you willing to pay the price of nobility ? " Then to side with Truth is noble, when we share her...wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just." The man who proposes to buy truth at this price may have the satisfaction,... | |
| 1879 - 556 páginas
...and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. * * * • " Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause brings fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the... | |
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