| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy...forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.' ODE, INSCRIBED TO WH CHANNING. THOUGH loath to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1847 - 244 pages
...doubtless very big, But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together To make up a year, And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy...wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, ODE, INSCRIBED TO WILLIAM H. CHANNING. THOUGH loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 pages
...doubtless very big, But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together To make up a year And a sphere ; And I think it no disgrace To occupy...If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as 1 , And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track ; Talents differ ; all... | |
| John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1848 - 456 pages
...provincialisms of Somersetshire. In a Fable by RW Emerson, " The Mountain and the Squirrel," Squirrel says : If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. She is as spry as a cricket. — Margaret, p. 58. " How are you, Jeremiah ?" " Why, I'm kinder sorter... | |
| 1876 - 396 pages
...doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together To make up a year And a sphere ; And I think it no disgrace To occupy...deny you make A very pretty squirrel -track. Talents diifer ; all is well and wisely put ; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a... | |
| Children's poetry - 1857 - 300 pages
...THE GEANDFATHEK. 265 But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I 'm not so huge as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry : 1 '11 not deny you make... | |
| 1860 - 600 pages
...doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy...very pretty squirrel track ; Talents differ ; all is wisely put ; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut." It is not always that... | |
| William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...are not so small as I, And not half so spry : I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel-track ; Talents differ ; all is well and wisely put ; If I...forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut." EMERSON. A AS I LAY A-THINKING. SI lay a-thinking, a-thinking, a-thinking, Merry sang the Bird as she... | |
| English literature - 1860 - 598 pages
...doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as yon, Yon are not so small as I! And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel... | |
| Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...doubtless very big, But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together To make up a year, And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace To occupy...forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.' R. LXVI EVENING Shepherds all, and maidens fair, Fold your flocks up, for the air 'Gins to thicken,... | |
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