 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1887 - 330 pages
...the lap of sensual ease, forego The godlike power to do, the godlike aim to know. — Whittier. Then to side 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, while the coward stands aside, Doubting... | |
 | Caroline Emily Cameron - 1885 - 256 pages
...conies the moment to decide In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side. Then to side with Truth is noble, when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, ere it's prosperous to be just, Then it is the brave man chooses, whilst the coward stands aside."... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 518 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, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - American poetry - 1886 - 746 pages
...for his miserable prey ; — Shall we guide 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, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - American poetry - 1886 - 752 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, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified, And the multitude make virtue of the faith... | |
 | William Channing Gannett, Jenkin Lloyd Jones - Christianity - 1886 - 152 pages
...expected pleasure, or does the still harder thing, stands up to be laughed at, who sides with truth— "Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just,"— that is true to the standard of the Bethany woman. Giving is not the throwing away of that which we... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1887 - 168 pages
...Delphic cave within : " They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin." Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched...brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified And the multitude make virtue of the faith... | |
 | Ohio - 1905 - 534 pages
...the law. The truth of the poet's lines was unfelt by many. "Then to side with truth is noble When we1 share her wretched crust. Ere her cause bring fame...brave man chooses. While the coward stands aside. Doubting in his abject spirit, Till his Lord is crucified. And the multitude make virtue Of the faith... | |
 | English periodicals - 1887 - 920 pages
...magnificent oratory of Wendell Phillips, could atone for these sights and sounds. Lowell had written : "Then to side with Truth is noble, when we share her wretched...bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to be just" But to men of delicate nerves it was not sharing Truth's crust that made the difficulty so much as... | |
 | Education - 1887 - 716 pages
...again from Lowell, when his words so tersely state the sort of spirit that the teacher needs. "Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched...crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prospr'ous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in... | |
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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,... 
