 The lords of life, the lords of life, — I saw them pass, In their own guise, Like and unlike, Portly and grim, Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift, and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of the game Omnipresent...  The Journal of speculative philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris. microform - Page 1961884Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 286 pages
...unlike, Portly and grim, Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift, and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of...his guardians tall, Walked about with puzzled look : — TTiTTi by the hand dear Nature took ; Dearest Nature, strong and kind, Whispered, ' Darling,... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1859 - 614 pages
...unlike, Portly and grim, Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream. Succession swift and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of...; Little man, least of all, Among the legs of his guardian tall, Walked about with puzzled look : — Him by the hand dear Nature took; Dearest Nature,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1863 - 288 pages
...unlike, Portly and grim, Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift, and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of...his guardians tall, Walked about with puzzled look : — TTim by the hand dear Nature took ; Dearest Nature, strong and kind, Whispered, • Darling,... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...unlike, Portly and grim, Use and surprise, Surface and dream. Succession swift, and spectral wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of...tall, Walked about with puzzled look ; Him by the hand kind Nature took : Dearest Nature, strong and mild, "Whispered, 'Darling, never mind! To-morrow they... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...unlike, Portly and grim,— Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of...guardians tall, Walked about with puzzled look. Him hy the hand dear Nature took, Dearest Nature, strong and kind, Whispered, ' Darling, never mind ! To-morrow... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1883 - 176 pages
...unlike, Portly and grim, 1'se and surprise, Surface and dream, Succession swift and spectral wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of...without name; Some to see, some to be guessed, They inarched from east to west ; Little man, least of all. Among the legs of his guardians tall, Walked... | |
 | WILLIAM T HARRIS - 1884 - 482 pages
...and unlike, Portly and grim, Use and surprise, Surface and dream, Succession swift and spectra! wrong Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of...the legs of his guardians tall, Walked about with puz/led look. Him by the hand dear nature took, Dearest nature, strong and kind, Whispered ' Darling,... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1882 - 592 pages
...with the lords of life, — use and surprise, surface, dream, succession, temperament, and wrong. " Little man, least of all, Among the legs of his guardians tall, Walked about with puzzled look ; " (Could experience, apart from ideas, be better described?) " Him by the hand dear Nature took,... | |
 | Maurice Maeterlinck - 1893 - 670 pages
...can match your Emerson quotation with another : — ' — The lords of life, the lords of life, — They marched from East to West : Little man, least...with puzzled look. Him by the hand dear Nature took, Whispered, Darling, never mind I To-morrow they will wear another face, The founder thou ; these are... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 546 pages
...and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the Inventor of the game, Omnipresent without a name. Some to see, some to be guessed, They marched...tall, Walked about with puzzled look : Him by the hand kind Nature took : Dearest Nature, strong and mild, Whispered, " Darling, never mind ! To-morrow they... | |
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