 | Henry George Spaulding - 1884 - 294 Seiten
...INTRODUCTORY SENTENCES. E of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart, All that hope in the Lord. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must 1 The youth replies, I can ! Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. II. HYMN.... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 Seiten
...it is Gray and his age. Now listen to Emerson, who " was not of an age, but for all time." THE ODE. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Tlwu must, The youth replies, lean. Oh, well for the fortunate soul "Which music's wings infold, Stealing... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1884 - 524 Seiten
...pleasure of quoting one or two of these exceptional passages :— " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, 80 near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." Or again this : — " Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 234 Seiten
...accustomed us to them. Let me have the pleasure of quoting one or two of these exceptional passages : — ' So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.' Or again this : — ' Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply : " 'Tis... | |
 | 1885 - 590 Seiten
..."Usoge» worn out The souls of them fumed forth, the hearts of them torn out," let Emerson speak : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, ' Thou must !' The youth replies, ' I can !' " Yours truly, GRADUATE. THE ADC PERFORMANCES. To the Editors of the Cambridge Review. SIRS, —... | |
 | Church congress - 1885 - 650 Seiten
...to repudiate that doctrine. I give you a finer and a nobler motto — So nigh is glory to our duty, So near is God to man ; When duty whispers low "Thou must," The soul replies, "I can." And if I am to speak to you about duties, I will mention one which is too often... | |
 | Robina Forrester Hardy - 1885 - 136 Seiten
...LASSIE,' 67 DAISY: AN ANGLO-INDIAN SKETCH, . . 117 CHAPTEE I. SUMMONED. 'So nigh is grandeur to the dust,— So near is God to man;— When duty whispers low, " Thou muUJ" The youth replies, " I CAN ! "' ^OME home to-morrow, 3 PM train. We are all well, but you are... | |
 | 1886 - 204 Seiten
...EE HALE. Woulds't behold beauty Near thee, all around ? Only hath duty . Such a sight found. DWIGHT. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON 17. I will praise the name of God with a song. — Ft. Ixix. 30. Be thou like the bird perched... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1886 - 476 Seiten
...come. Go and do your duty," and everything generous and noble in the heart responds, and says amen ! " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, 'Thou must! The youth replies, ' I can ! '" These are the great occasions, which come once, often not again. If we let them go by unimproved,... | |
 | George Edward Jeans - 1886 - 146 Seiten
...fine words of Emerson, which are written up in the Hall of Marlborough College — " So close is glory to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." 1 Ps. cxxi. i. 2 Ps. xxiv. 3, 4. IV. CHRISTMAS.1 (Third Sunday in Advent, 1879.) 0 Lord, who has taught... | |
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