 Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means, and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...  Poems of Manhood ... - Seite 541861 - 128 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 488 Seiten
...right foundation rest, He fixes good ou good alone, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows ; —Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by...will stand On honorable terms, or else retire, And iu himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 584 Seiten
...foundation rest, He fixes good on good alone, and owes To virtue every trinmph that he knows ; — Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means ; and there will On honorable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust,... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 676 Seiten
...rest. He fixes good on good alone, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows; Who. if he rise 10 station of command. Rises by open means ; and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire. And in himself possess his own desire ; Who comprehends his trust,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 Seiten
...foundation rest, He fixes good on good alone, aud owes To virtue every triumph that he knows : — The : AVho comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim, Aud therefore... | |
 | 1881 - 696 Seiten
...Controls them, and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives; . . . Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open...there will stand On honorable terms, or else retire. . . . He who, though thus endued, as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a soul... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - 1881 - 690 Seiten
...Controls them, and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives ; . . . Who, if he rise to station of command. Rises by open...there will stand On honorable terms, or else retire. . . . He who, though thus endued, as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a soul... | |
 | 1924 - 700 Seiten
...living symbol. We salute in you, Mr. President, one of those of whom one of our poets has written — Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means, and these will stand On honourable terms, Who, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness... | |
 | Arthur Beatty - 1928 - 582 Seiten
...foundation rest, He labours good on good to fix, and owes To virtue every triumph that he knows : — Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means; and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire; Who comprehends his trust,... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - 1928 - 866 Seiten
...as well as admiring the ability of the writer. Hastings in his old age was indeed the Happy Warrior, Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means ; and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire. . . . 1 Add ' and Muhammadans... | |
 | Walter Hines Page, Arthur Wilson Page - 1912 - 764 Seiten
...felt that his work at Princeton was done. He had come to that alternative of the Happy Warrior; of one Who if he rise to station of command Rises by open...else retire, And in himself possess his own desire. He was to retire — but not to obscurity, even temporary. The country had not missed altogether what... | |
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