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Page 51 - 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, And the multitude make virtue of the faith they have denied.
Page 121 - By the light of burning heretics, Christ's bleeding feet I track, Toiling up new Calvaries ever with the cross that turns not back, And these mounts of anguish number how each generation learned One new word of that grand Credo which in prophet-hearts hath burned Since the first man stood God-conquered with his face to heaven upturned.
Page 32 - Thoughts great hearts once broke for, we Breathe cheaply in the common air; The dust we trample heedlessly Throbbed once in saints and heroes rare.
Page 119 - Beneath this starry arch Naught resteth or is still ; But all things hold their march, As if by one great will.
Page 124 - He fell in the spring of his early prime, With his fair hopes all around him ; ' He died for his birth-land—a glorious crime, Ere the palm of his fame had crowned him. " He fell in her darkness, he lived not to see The morn of her risen glory; But the name of the brave, in the
Page 49 - His manners were engaging and genteel; his scholars all loved him. While he was not severe, there was something determined in the man, which gave him a control of the boys that was remarkable. He had a way of imparting his views to others in a simple, natural method, without ostentation or egotism, which is a rare gift.
Page 120 - they are not my dwelling, I but enter by them to an area of my dwelling.
Page 50 - put his hand on a fence as high as his head and clear it easily at a bound.
Page 16 - a republic. The heroic deeds of a people live in its monuments. Greece is preeminently great because of her sculpture, and her sculpture commemorates the deeds of her national heroes. So Egypt, Persia, Assyria, —what are they but the Pharaohs, Cyrus, Sargon immortalized in stone ? " All passes into dust Save deathless Art alone; The bust Survives the ruined throne.
Page 124 - lived not to see The morn of her risen glory; But the name of the brave, in the