...sun set, but set not his hope; Stars rose ; his faith was earlier up ; Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye; And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. EMERSON. f THE MAN. I. Who knows the secret of the sunrise? who Shall say what splendor of the exhaustless...

...The good books as well as the good people received their careful and discriminating meed of praise. "He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the age of gold again": the oratory of Everett and Phillips ; the readings of Charles Dickens ; the lectures of Thackeray and...

...galaxy, Deeper and older seemed bis eye : And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. lie spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the Age...reverence sweet, As hid all measure of the feat." — EMERSON. " Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us, indifferent...

...sun set, but not his hope : — Stars rose, his faith was earlier up : Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye, And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of Time. EMERSON. 76 "LET ME GO WHERE'ER I WILL." LET me go where'er I will, I hear P sky-born music still :...

...control a happy future. " The sun set, but not his hope ; Stars rose, — his faith was earlier up ; His action won such reverence sweet As hid all measure of the feat." All lives that are in the best sense worth the living are so by virtue of being true to their own polarity....

...sun set, but set not his hope; Stars rose ; his faith was earlier up ; Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye ; And matched his sufferance sublime The taciturnity of time. —EMERSON. THE MAN. j. "\ XT HO knows the secret of the sunrise ? who Shall say what splendor of the...

...for June, 1890, and " Literature in School," by HE Scudder, in the Riverside Literature Series. *' He spoke, and words more soft than rain Brought the...reverence sweet, As hid all measure of the feat." CHAPTER XIV. MORAL PROGRESS. THE first place where we learn about the moral laws is, of course, the...

...sun set, but set not his hope : Stars rose ; his faith was earlier up : Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye ; And matched his...such reverence sweet As hid all measure of the feat. w * Although these lines were suggested by the character of Emerson's brother, Edward Bliss Emerson,...

...Fixed on the enormous galaxy, Deeper and older seemed his eye ; And matched his sufferance sublime s The taciturnity of time. He spoke, and words more...such reverence sweet As hid all measure of the feat. 10 * Although these lines were suggested by the character of Emerson's brother, Edward Bliss Emerson,...

...bring back a fact, caring only for truth, candid as a still lake, expectant, unfettered, and tireless. Work of his hand He nor commends nor grieves: Pleads...fact; As unrepenting Nature leaves Her every act. The achievements of scientific inquirers, animated by this spirit of sincerity and truth, have been...