| 1880 - 672 páginas
...at prime." Notice the power of this quatrain : " Though love repine, and reason chafe, .There came a voice without reply — ' 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, "When for the truth he ought to die.' " The poem entitled " Brahma," too hastily ridiculed at first, is only a compact rendering of the leading... | |
| Almira Leach Hayward - 1881 - 378 páginas
...yearnings cannot save. WC Bryant. : — January 5. Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply — " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die." RW Emerson. Men's lives, like oceans, change In shifting tides, and ebb from either shore Till the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 páginas
...And eat through Alps its home to find. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — ' 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES. WELL and wisely said the Greek, Be thon faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 páginas
...friendless Present ! than thy bosom holds." SACRIFICE. " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply : 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." The general idea of the irreversible past, so often expressed, has never been more characteristically... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 páginas
...find. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,— ' 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES. WELL and wisely said the Greek, Be thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 páginas
...And eat through Alps its home to find. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — • " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." PERICLES. WELL and wisely said the Greek, Be thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 páginas
...and above Nature. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " "T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without. One is enthusiasm,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 472 páginas
...and above Nature. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without. One is enthusiasm,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 404 páginas
...above Nature. Though Love repine, and Reason cliafe, There came a voice without reply, — *' 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Such is the difference of the action of the heart within and of the senses without. One is enthusiasm,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 332 páginas
...find. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — ' 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES. WELL and wisely said the Greek, Be thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
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