 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...makes all hfepoetry^Jiymn to t~he Cause of causes, I the Spirit which vivffiesand conSolsTSs own :— " I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; , iv I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." And still... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1873 - 430 pages
...associations and impressions which the season awakened, anticipating in some measure the progress of the year. I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. Sitting with our faces now up stream, we studied the landscape by degrees, as one unrolls a map, rock,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...heart hath lit, Then will the verse forever wear, — Time cannot bend the line which God has writ. I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime of life, Of manhood's strength it is the flower,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...wear. — Time cannot bend the line which God has writ. I hearing get, who had but ears, And siglit, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived...years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime of life, Of manhood's strength it is the flower,... | |
 | William Fearing Gill - 1880 - 488 pages
...simple and strong, and thus equipped, he was ready for all emergencies, and could sing in this wise : "I hearing get, who had but ears ; And sight, who...And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." He was a true bard of the woods and fields, and his sayings in prose are sometimes redolent of exquisite... | |
 | William Fearing Gill - 1880 - 496 pages
...he was ready for all emergencies, and could sing ii1 this wise: " I hearing get, who had but cars ; And sight, who had but eyes before ; I moments live,...And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." He- was a true bard of the woods and fields, and his sayings in prose are sometimes redolent of exquisite... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...heart hath lit, Then will the verse forever wear, — Time cannot bend the line which God has writ. chaff Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime of life ; Of manhood's strength it is the flower... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 478 pages
...all his poetry a hymn to the Cause of causes, the Spirit which vivifies and controls his own : — " I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." And still more in these religious lines : — " Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 336 pages
...hymn to the Cause • "Walden," p. 20. »f causes, the Spirit which vivifies and contiols hia mm. " I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." And still more in these religious lines : — " Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 400 pages
...all his poetry a hymn to the Cause of causes, the Spirit which vivifies and controls his own : — " I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore." A.nd still more in these religious lines : — " Now chiefly is my natal hour, £y , And only now my... | |
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I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. 
