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We are proud of our land and her people; our nerves are firm and set; our hearts cry out for action; we are not weeping, but burning for the Cause. How little we know of this heroic woman.
At supper we see the family about the table, happy notwithstanding their scant fare, each child with a spoon in one hand and a book in the other. We hear Betty Davidson reciting, from her great store, some heroic ballad that fired the young hearts to enthusiasm and made them forget the day's toil.
If, on the other hand, it be read as a page of contemporary history, it becomes human, pregnant with real woe, the record of an heroic soul, not baffled by temporary adversity, but totally defeated by an irreversible fate, and unflinchingly accepting the situation, in the firm conviction of the righteousness of the cause. If fiction is truer than fact, fact is more tragic than fiction.
On one occasion he writes to King Joseph, "I have never sought the applause of Parisians; I am not an operatic monarch." Seguier says: "Napoleon is above human history. He belongs to heroic periods and is beyond admiration." And there are innumerable instances which prove that his sympathies and goodness to those who were notoriously undeserving was a fatal passion with him.
The most that can be done is to alleviate their suffering! She said this very well, though the words were hackneyed. 'It is heroic, said Captain Ugo quietly.
Of the whole of these victims one only, a mere youth, asked for mercy; the rest met their fate with heroic calmness and resolution.
The long line of Febrer's grandmothers had handed down from generation to generation a great uncut diamond, a souvenir from the heroic captain given in return for their gracious hospitality.
The jurisprudence of Rome has survived all her conquests, and is the most valuable contribution to civilization which she ever made. Their power came to an end in a signal manner, and the history of their fall is identified with one of the most beautiful legends of this heroic age, which is also the subject of one of Macaulay’s lays.
"Dhritarashtra said, 'Hearing, O Sanjaya, of the fall of the heroic son of Ganga, that warrior of all celestial weapons, as also of the fall of that foremost of all bowmen, Drona, my heart feeleth great pain!
He soon sold his house and horses, gave up his motors, dismissed his retinue of servants, and went saving two young ladies from being run over on the way to live a life of heroic self-sacrifice among the poor. I was beginning to feel encouraged about him, when in passing a fishmonger's, he pointed at a great salmon and said, "I caught that fish." The Incredible
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