 Her power is, indeed, manifested at the bar, in the senate, in the field of battle, in the schools of philosophy. But these are not her glory. Wherever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages pain ; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with...  The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay - Page 81by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1865 - 395 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1882 - 878 pages
...philosophy. But these are not her glory. Wherever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages pain, — wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with...noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens. The dervise, in the Arabian tale, did not hesitate to abandon to his comrade the camels with their load... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - Protestants - 1882 - 500 pages
...of philosophy. But these are not her glory. Whereever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages pain, wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with...noblest form the immortal influence of Athens. The dervise, in the Arabian tale, did not hesitate to abandon to his comrade the camels with their load... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...flower. c. JC and AW HAKE — Guesses at Truth. Wherever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages pain,— wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with...its noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens. /. MACABLAY. — Essay on Mitford's History of Greece. There, is first, the literature of knowledge;... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...e. JC und AW HAKE — Guesses at Truth. Wherever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages pain, — wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with...wakefulness and tears, and ache for the .dark house and the Ion» sleep,— there is exhibited, in its noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens. /. MACAVLAY—... | |
 | James Ormsbee Murray - Baccalaureate addresses - 1883 - 40 pages
...of God. " Wherever literature consoles sorrow or assuages pain, wherever it brings gladness to the eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache...exhibited, in its noblest form, the immortal influence of letters." When Rufus Ohoate gave the address at the dedication of the Institute which George Peabody... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...consoles sorrow, or assuages pain, — wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakcfulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long...its noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens. Eisay on Mitford'i History of Greece. Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the... | |
 | Harriet B. Swineford - American literature - 1883 - 302 pages
...sudden. He was buried in the Poet's Corner, near the statue of Addison, in Westminster Abbey. EXTRACTS. tears and ache for the dark house and the long sleep,...exhibited, in its noblest form, the immortal influence of Athena. Essay on Mitforcfs " History of Oreece." The real security of Christianity is to be found in... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - Elocution - 1884 - 442 pages
...schools of philosophy. But these are not her glory. Wherever literature consoles sorrow or assuages pain, wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with...its noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens. 5. The dervish, in the Arabian tale, did not hesitate to abandon to his comrade the camels with their... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - Apologetics - 1884 - 704 pages
...philosophy. But these are not her glory. Wherever literature consoles sorrow, or assuages pain — wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with...noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens."* In only a more reverent and affectionate spirit, and surely with a justice still more apparent, we... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - Apologetics - 1884 - 698 pages
...consoles sorrow, or assuages pain — wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakef ulness and tears, and ache for the dark house and the long...its noblest form, the immortal influence of Athens." * In only a more reverent and affectionate spirit, and surely with a justice still more apparent, we... | |
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