| Lucy Larcom - Meditations - 1887 - 252 pages
...in their inmost hearts, on the side of God, rather than their own, in this matter. JAHXS M AUTIMJAV. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. E. w. EMERSON. 21 April. Thou art not the more holy for being praised, nor the more worthless for being... | |
| Gordon Augustus Southworth, Farley Brewer Goddard - English language - 1887 - 414 pages
...far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. SHAKESPEARE. 8. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. 9. William H. Prescott, John L. Motley, and George Bancroft are distinguished American historians.... | |
| Children's poetry - 1887 - 168 pages
...air benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. EMEKSON (Voluntaries). 83 BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 380 pages
...air benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. IV. O, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Criticism - 1887 - 344 pages
...War, there is one quatrain that stands out from the rest with startling distinctness and power : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." But perhaps the noblest of these affirmations of the absolute obligation of men to follow their... | |
| Education - 1887 - 642 pages
...the lips of the man whose boyhood knew privations. How many young minds have leapt at the words, " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The soul replies, / can !" How many, also, have felt their pulses thrill with the exultant words of that... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Criticism - 1887 - 360 pages
...War, there is one quatrain that stands out from the rest with startling distinctness and power : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, ^ When Duty whispers low, Thou must, 2 The youth replies, / can." But perhaps the noblest of these affirmations of the absolute obligation... | |
| Gordon Augustus Southworth - 1887 - 122 pages
...beams I So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 8. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, SHAKESPEARE. So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. 9. William H. Prescott, John L. Motley, and George Bancroft are distinguished American historians.... | |
| Literature - 1888 - 1004 pages
...The four lines from his " Voluntaries " breathe the very essence of his teaching both in prose and verse : — So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. The poetical specialist denies Emerson's claim tobe a poet, and the philosophical specialist equally... | |
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