 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1867 - 226 pages
...find. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, I There came a voice without reply, — I ' '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... | |
 | American literature - 1888 - 1008 pages
...grandeur is our dust. So nigh is God to man, When Duty whispers low, then must, The youth replies, / can. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe. There came a voice without reply, — "V is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die ! For simple and pure delight... | |
 | 1919 - 644 pages
...the inflexible and uncompromising course which he has pursued since last March ? HENRY LEE HIGGINSON 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." r|^HESE are the familiar... | |
 | English literature - 1872 - 760 pages
...morning I pick up a volume which has fallen to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : 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." Again : — Well and wisely... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1872 - 758 pages
...morning I pick up a volume which has fallen to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : 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." Again : — Well and wisely... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1873 - 826 pages
...morning I pick up a volume which has fallen to the floor ; and my eye catches these verses among others : 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." Again : — Well and wisely... | |
 | Edward Augustus Warriner - 1875 - 420 pages
...caritas." AUGUSTINE. " Though love repine and reason chafe, There comes a voice without reply — 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." EMERSON. BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. ff TIL::.:: i rx>AT:j:-"S E 1. HL Entered according to Act of Congress,... | |
 | John White Chadwick - Sermons, American - 1879 - 368 pages
...remedies. It is the source of many evils, but also of much good; of an unspeakable courage and devotion. " 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.' And though apparently the amount... | |
 | Almira Leach Hayward - Birthday books - 1880 - 300 pages
...strong. At thought of that insatiate grave From which its 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." Jt. W. Emerson. Men's lives,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1881 - 224 pages
...through snow, Where way is none, 't will creep and wind And eat through Alps its home to find. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a...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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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. 
