Careless seems the great Avenger; history's pages but record One death-grapple in the darkness 'twixt old systems and the Word; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,... The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ... - Página 161por James Russell Lowell - 1866Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Charles James Whitmore - 1884 - 140 páginas
...record The death-grapple through the ages 'twixt old systems and God's Word. But the yet- veiled rules the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own." CHAPTER V. " LIFE." " The breath of the Almighty hath given me life." WE are seeking after God ! let... | |
| James Johonnot - 1885 - 202 páginas
...As dreams are made of, and our life Is rounded with a sleep." 18 LESSON XXIX. THE PRESENT CRISIS. " Careless seems the great avenger ; History's pages...behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, LESSON XXX. THE GOOD PARSON. " Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned... | |
| National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Annual Session - 1885 - 544 páginas
...the tide of evil is, indeed, a noble work, which, amid all its discouragements, is full of hope. " Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." Our work is not ended with the imparting of knowledge as to what is right, but it includes the giving... | |
| 1885 - 812 páginas
...Twixt old systems and the Word ; Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. — But that scaffold sways the future, And behind the dim...God within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own." At the close of the exercises, as the rural custom is, all friends and neighbors were bidden to come... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 páginas
...green and gold, Will still, as he hath done, incline His gracious ear to me and mine. — Whittier. Behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. — Lowell. Again, one use of 'too' is represented thus: Thilke same kidde (as I can well devise) Was... | |
| Edwin Hodder - 1885 - 450 páginas
...some events that happened just after they had been a year in their new home. A LILIPUTIAN BATTLE. " Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own." LOWELL—The Present Crisis. " Consider The sparrows of the air of small account; Our God doth view... | |
| Joseph Samuel Exell - 1885 - 786 páginas
...you will be the more prepared for Satan. In such case you тяу confidently expect aid, for — " Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own." — LoaxU. Conditional Ver. 1. No man is truly prosperous whose mortality is forfeited. X" man is rich... | |
| Richard Price Hallowell - 1886 - 126 páginas
..." of Boston. James Russell Lowell tells us, in lines inspired by reverence for martyrs, that — " History's pages but record One death-grapple in the...God within the shadow, Keeping watch above his own." History's pages record the erection of a scaffold on Boston Common, upon which the Quakers sealed their... | |
| George Lansing Raymond - 1886 - 386 páginas
...figures, and the thoughts by means of the figures, stand out in poetry that is truly representative : Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the...God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. — The Present Crisis : Lowell, Virtue ? a fig ! 't is in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1886 - 352 páginas
...To the spirit select, there Is no choice, • • When there is work, that he must do for God. 31 w Behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. a lAontijlg JHaganne of iliberal <tti)rißttanitg. VOL. I. APRIL, 1886. No. 4. THE UNITARIAN. EDITED... | |
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