 But by his clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity ! They knew that outward grace is dust ; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring...  Talking Business - Page 7by John Mantle Clapp - 1919 - 526 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 504 pages
...outward grace is dust ; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer... | |
 | 1879 - 692 pages
...outward grace is dust ; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now.... | |
 | Richard Edwards, John Russell Webb - 1868 - 510 pages
...outward grace is dust; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust, 5. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of serf and peer... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1868 - 300 pages
...outward grace is dust ; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will, That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer,... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1869 - 524 pages
...outward grace is dust ; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will, That bent like perfect steel, to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1869 - 312 pages
...outward grace is dust; They could not choose but trust IB that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. nis was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to* thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...outward grace is dust ; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And here ; * white, And sitting, at the fall of even, Beneath the bow of summer His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea-mark now,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 pages
...outward grace is dust ; They could not choose but trust In that sure.footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple.tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. His was no lonely mountain.peak of mind, Thrusting to thin air o'er our cloudy bars, A sea. mark now,... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - 1874 - 360 pages
...old wisdom of sincerity! They knew that outward grace is dust; They could not choose but trust And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, His was no lonely mountain-peak of mind, Thrusting to... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 240 pages
...outward grace is dust ; They could not choose but trust In that sure-footed mind's unfaltering skill, And supple-tempered will That bent like perfect steel to spring again and thrust. Nothing of Europe here, Or, then, of Europe fronting mornward still, Ere any names of Serf and Peer... | |
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