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. Complete Works - Page 243by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
| North American review - 1866 - 662 pages
...the action of this sentiment of the Right, his heart and mind expand above himself, 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... | |
| North American review - 1866 - 672 pages
...the action of this sentiment of the Right, his heart and mind expand above himself, and above Nature. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " ' I i - man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Such is the difference... | |
| 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...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." r|^HESE are the familiar lines which _I_ Henry Lee Higginson chose for an inscription to stand at the... | |
| 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... | |
| 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...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Again : — Well and wisely said the Greek, Be thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
| 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...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Again : — Well and wisely said the Greek, Be 1.1 1 - ni faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot... | |
| 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...perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Again : — Well and wisely said the Greek, lie thou faithful, but not fond ; To the altar's foot thy... | |
| Edward Augustus Warriner - 1875 - 420 pages
...dublis libertas, in omnibus 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...perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die.' And though apparently the amount of war does not diminish with the lapse of centuries, its occasions... | |
| North American review - 1880 - 672 pages
...might have written : " Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime." Notice the power of this quatrain : " Though love repine, and reason chafe, .There came...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... | |
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