 | 1877 - 506 pages
...her cause brings fame and profit, And 'tie 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, 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
...cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, when the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit,...multitude make virtue of the faith they had denied. *"or Humanity sweeps onward ; where to-day the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 210 pages
...her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is 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, 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
...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...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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1852 - 456 pages
...her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject...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,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1855 - 780 pages
...her cause bring fame or profit, and 'tis prosperous to be jost ; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands 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
...strife of Truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side : * ***** Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting 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.... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - Free thought - 1857 - 354 pages
...it is the brave man chooses, while the cowmnl stands aside. Doubting in his abject spirit, till bin Lord is crucified. And the multitude make virtue of the faith they once denied. For humanity sweeps onward : where t»»-day the martyr stand* On the morrow crouches... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...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...they had denied. • Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes,—they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious... | |
 | Oswald Jackson - 1858 - 300 pages
...In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side. Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified. EXT to the interest attaching to the triumphant death of Mrs. Trotter, is that connected with her early... | |
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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,... 
