| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...stars that eome in sight Our,e in a eentury; — But better far it is to speak One simple wora, whieh now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men. Jamee Rustell Lowell, Thy talk is the sweet extraet of all speeeh, And holds mine ear in blissful slavery.... | |
| 1857 - 834 pages
...world, all the influencethey exert, all the marks they leave, is through the medium of conversation. " It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad...stars that come in sight Once in a century; But better fur it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And... | |
| Harriet B. Cooke - 1858 - 358 pages
...VISIT TO MY YOUNGEST SON.— DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION. *' There is in souls a sympathy with sound." "It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad...free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men." IN the spring of 1848, for the first time? I visited the home of my youngest son, in the sunny south,... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 342 pages
...heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men. It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad...free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men ; Shall make a clearer faith and manhood shine In the untutored heart. To write some earnest verse... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1857 - 334 pages
...heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men. It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those i'ar stars that come in sight Once in a century ; — But better far it is to speak One simple word,... | |
| Matthias Claudius - 1859 - 178 pages
...GOOD WAY, AND WALK THEREIN." LONDON: WAED AND CO., 27, PATERNOSTER EOW. JOHN CHILDS AND SON, PRINTERS. It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad...free nature in the weak And 'friendless sons of men; *>?.£J*-::f To write some eanje'sf..ver^s.'or line, Which, seeking not; ihV pi" aise of art, Shall... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1859 - 136 pages
...once, might have failed to do. Observe, again, that it is a word spoken. Says the poet, (Lowell) : " It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad...free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men." Written words, it is true, often outlive spoken ones ; but there is a power in the spoken word that... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1859 - 136 pages
...once, might have failed to do. Observe, again, that it is a word spoken. Says the poet, (Lowell) : " It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad...free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men." Written words, it is true, often outlive spoken ones ; but there is a power in the spoken word that... | |
| HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and To the lives of coarsest men. [fear It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad...three High souls, like those far stars that come in Once in a century ; [sight But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall... | |
| John Cumming - 1860 - 618 pages
...new light to the scholar ; but he labours to teach, and he prays that he may be useful to the many. " It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad...speak One simple word which now and then Shall waken a new nature in the weak And sinful sons of men." INTBODUCTION. THINGS THAT REGIN TO COME TO PASS.... | |
| |