| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...novelist, essayist, poet. Virginibus Puerisque, "An Apology for Idlers" (1881). Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory. ALFRED TENNYSON, IST BARON TENNYSON, (1809-1892) British poet. "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington,"... | |
| 278 páginas
...merit, but they have a deep interest for all Englishmen and remind us that " Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of Duty was the way to Glory." The crypt is the most interesting portion of St Paul's, for in it are gathered nearly all the tombs that... | |
| 1909 - 888 páginas
...read and discussed. The majority of the class were found to have chosen — Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory. The teacher then read aloud the sixth stanza of Wordsworth's " Ode to Duty," beginning — Stern Lawgiver... | |
| 344 páginas
...its skilfully concerted harmonies one note rings out insistently and true : Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. The wonderful accuracy of Tennyson's descriptions of nature are known to all of his readers. The mere hearing... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1861 - 808 páginas
...such lesson as the life of Wellington embodied, and the Laureate sang : — " Not once or twice in our rough island story, • The path of duty Was the way to glory. He that walks it, only thirsting ; i'or the right, and Icarus to deaden Love of self, before his joumcy... | |
| 1867 - 846 páginas
...whatever the occupation, and therefore may fitly conclude my observations. " ' Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory. Ite that walks it. only thirsting For the right, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn... | |
| William Thomas Stead - 1892 - 652 páginas
...rebuking all self-seekers, and teaching eager wire-pullers and politicians that Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory. All this is good — permanently good. Tennyson must be counted as one of the forces which have made... | |
| Henry Allon - 1872 - 716 páginas
...cannot but recall those grand lines of Tennyson on our own great soldier, — ' Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey... | |
| 1905 - 754 páginas
...practice of telling the truth. Tennyson wrote of the Duke of Wellington: " Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory." We might paraphrase this to our own encouragement: "Not once or twice in our Republic's story, The... | |
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