 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 Life and Times of Wendell Phillips - Page 420by George Lowell Austin - 1884 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1877 - 506 pages
...with truth is noble when We share her wretched crust, Ere her cause brings fame and profit, And 'tie prosperous to be just. Then it is the brave man chooses,...spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude makes virtue of the Faith they have desired. Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, They were souls that... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...his gory fingers where our helpless children play ? Then to side with Truth is noble, when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit,...prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, when the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it. is the brave man chooses,...in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, Count me o'er Earth's chosen heroes, — they were souls that stood alone While the men they agonized... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionists - 1852 - 428 pages
...give my hand and my heart to this Declaration !' 1 Then to side with Truth is noble, when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit,...multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied.' No amount of homage paid to the past is a sure indication of living virtue. On the contrary, the more... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - Boston courier - 1852 - 270 pages
...with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses,...multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. Count me o'er Earth's chosen heroes, — they were souls that stood alone . 'While the men they agonized... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1852 - 456 pages
...with truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses,...crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they once denied, For Humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1853 - 284 pages
...with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses,...multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. Count me o'er Earth's chosen heroes, -— they were souls that stood alone While the men they agonized... | |
 | 1855 - 784 pages
...— Then to sido with Truth is noble, when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame or profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just ; Then it is...aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord be crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. For Humanity sweeps onward... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 pages
...when wo share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame or profit, and 'tis prosperous to be jost ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward...aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord be crucified, Ала the multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. For Humanity sweeps onward... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - Boarding schools - 1857 - 446 pages
...cornea the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side : * ***** Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward...in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified." LOWELL. THE turning point in our hero's school career had now come, and the manner of it was as follows.... | |
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