| Jabez Marrat - 1892 - 362 strani
...those of the inspired tinker, Bunyan, beside the Ouse. Dr. Johnson wrote in his 'Western Islands': 'That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.' Still less enviable... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 strani
...indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. The man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon,2 or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona. — Journey... | |
| William Garden Blaikie - 1893 - 160 strani
...kind are sometiling to cherish. You know the famous words of Dr. Samuel Johnson when he visited lona: "That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plains of Marathon, and whose piety would not grow wanner among the ruins of lona." Many a soldier... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1894 - 414 strani
...came into my mind the words of the old English Tory, the stern enemy of American Independence — " that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon." This, indeed, was " ground dignified by wisdom, bravery, and virtue." Washington, for many months,... | |
| William Black - 1894 - 424 strani
...consecrated by the love and devotion of a thousand song-writers, known and unknown. I will say with Johnson ' That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Bannockburn, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona'—" " Well, well," he said,... | |
| 1894 - 808 strani
...made the presiding officer. In taking the chair Mr. Godwin quoted Samuel Johnson's sentence : " The man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Mr. Godwin... | |
| Cummington (Mass.) - 1894 - 106 strani
...TU-DENFOUNOM10N4, ADDRESS. BY PRESIDENT PARKE GODWIN. Ladies and Gentlemen: Dr. Samuel Johnson said that " the man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force on the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." He meant by... | |
| William Malone Baskervill, James Witt Sewell - 1895 - 358 strani
...1 . Has a man gained anything who has received a hundred favors and rendered none ? — EMERSON. 2. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon. — DR. JOHNSON. 3. For her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament. MILTON. 4. The nurse... | |
| Francis J. Hosmer - 1896 - 114 strani
...thinking beings. Far from me, be that frigid philosophy, which could conduct one unmoved, over ground once dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man...envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." While I have no... | |
| Helen H. Watson - 1902 - 264 strani
...with in her reading with her grandfather, came to her mind as she looked at the careless crowd : ' That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the Plain of Marathon.' Could these people ever rise to a Marathon ? She doubted it. Marie's joy at the sight of Hester was... | |
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