 The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly ? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky : Give...  The Cheltonian - Page 63by Cheltenham College - 1868Full view - About this book
 | William Alexander (Abp. of Armagh) - 1893 - 358 lehte
...but she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she. Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. " If the wages of virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm or the fly ? She desires no isles of the blest — To rest in a golden groove or to bask in a summer... | |
 | 1893 - 360 lehte
...profited having gained the whole world, but having lost or having forfeited himself ? ' ' Would ' he ' have heart to endure, for the life of the worm and the fly ? ' Is not life incomparably the most precious of all possessions ? 'Or what shall a man give in exchange... | |
 | Henry Reuben Rose - 1894 - 262 lehte
...spirituality and love. And this, really, is what virtuous and virtueaspiring souls want. Virtue ". . . desires no isles of the blest, No quiet seats of the just; To rest in a golden grove, Or bask in a summer sky; Give her the wages of going on,, And not to die," and she is happy and strong.... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1895 - 944 lehte
...not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. " The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would...To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky: Give her the wages of going on, and not to die." He more than once said what he has expressed... | |
 | 1895 - 416 lehte
...Perceiving at all. But Shows, and Species Virtutibus Similes, serve best with them. BACON. THE wages of sin is death : if the wages of virtue be dust, Would...To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky : Give her the wages of going on, and not to die. TENNYSON. 269 0 swear not by the moon, the inconstant... | |
 | Hugh Miller Thompson - 1895 - 164 lehte
...but she aimed not at glory, no lover of glory she. Give her the glory of going on and still to be! She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove or bask in a summer sky. Give her the wages of going on and not to die." Nay, the highest thing on earth... | |
 | 1896 - 532 lehte
...not at glory, no lover of glory she; Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would...To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky; Give her the wages of going on, and not to die. THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE HALF a league,... | |
 | 1897 - 308 lehte
...eldest born of virtue, And claims the birthright at the throne of heaven. — Murphy. The wages of sin, is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would...no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, ... Give her the wages of going on, and not to die ! — Tennyson. Such as have virtue always in their... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 lehte
...not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be. The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would...have heart to endure for the life of the worm and tha She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, [fly i To rest in a golden grove,... | |
 | Boston Browning Society - 1897 - 518 lehte
...these two prophets with a golden link forged by that third great seer in our century : — We desire no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky : Give us the wages of going on, and not to die. I can see no better ground for optimism than that... | |
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