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" So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can... "
Examination Papers for the Academic Year ... - Page 9
1893
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Beckonings for Every Day: A Calendar of Thought

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...
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Our Language: Its Use and Structure Taught by Practice and Example

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....
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Bedside Poetry: A Parents ̕assistant in Moral Discipline

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,...
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Poems

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...
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American Literature: And Other Papers

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...
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Pennsylvania School Journal, Volume 36

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...
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American Literature: And Other Papers

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...
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Our Language: Its Use and Structure, Taught by Practice and Example, Part 1

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....
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 15

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1894 - 900 pages
...same ungrudging sacrifice of all for them, if the need come. " How nigh is grandeur to our dust, How near is God to man ! When Duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " Emerson was a New Engländer in every fibre, and it is the soul of New England that speaks in his...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 176

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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