 O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome ; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan ; For...  The North British Review - Page 2671867Full view - About this book
 | Jean de La Fontaine - 1877 - 326 pages
...pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophists' schools and the learned clan ; For what are they all,...high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? RW Emerson. Solitude où je sens une douceur secrète, Lieux que j'aimai toujours, ne pourrai-je... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 pages
...to thought and God. O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Grecce and Koine ; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, 1 laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan ; For what are... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...feet have never trod, — A spot that is sacred to thought and God. Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan t thunders ! Would you stand On high Olympus, far renown'd, N strctch'd beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 pages
...sacred to thought and God. O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Kome; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the...For what are they all in their high conceit, When nun in the bush with God may meet? THE SEA. BEHOLD the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong,... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned elan; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet* r.ALi-n WALDO EXEBSOH. THE SUNKEN CITY. HARK! the faint bells of the sunken city Peal once more their... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...feet have never trod, — A spot that is sacred to thought and God. Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome ; And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride... | |
 | George Melville Baker - 1879 - 734 pages
...never trod, A spot that is sacred to thought and God. Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome ; And when I am stretched...evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan ; For what are they all in their high conceit,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1921 - 566 pages
...to lay and brood and from whence he hurls his defy at the world to disturb him, when he says — "O, when I am stretched beneath the pines. Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man." With this age-old joy in the pine before me: with this history-old celebration of its... | |
 | James Hingston - 1879 - 490 pages
...the surrounding circuit of busy care, restless crime and strife, and squabble for riches and honours. "What are they all in their high conceit, when man in the garden with God may meet ? " As we go on board the steamer that is to bring us away from Sydney's shores... | |
 | 1921 - 744 pages
...Emerson — "Goodbye." O, when I am safe in my sylvan home I tread on the pride of Greece and Eome ; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the...high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? Emerson — "April." The hedge is gemmed with diamonds, The air with Cupids full, The cobweb clues... | |
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