| Robert Frost - 1979 - 654 pages
...having instituted Downward comparisons. As long on earth As our comparisons were stoutly upward 60 With gods and angels, we were men at least, But little...see our images Reflected in the mud and even dust, 65 'Twas disillusion upon disillusion. We were lost piecemeal to the animals, Like people thrown out... | |
| Robert Frost - 1979 - 654 pages
...worship, humor, conscientiousness Went long since to the dogs under the table. And served us right for having instituted Downward comparisons. As long on earth As our comparisons were stoutly upward 60 With gods and angels, we were men at least, But little lower than the gods and angels. But once... | |
| George Monteiro - 1988 - 196 pages
...dominion over the beasts, the fowl, and the fish is evident when the poet echoes Psalm 8:5 in the lines: As long on earth As our comparisons were stoutly upward...least, But little lower than the gods and angels. Emerson, in his essay "The Comic," also distinguishes between man and those other creatures: "With... | |
| Edwin Harrison Cady, Louis J. Budd - 1991 - 280 pages
...worship, humor, conscientiousness Went long since to the dogs under the table And served us right for having instituted Downward comparisons. As long on...see our images Reflected in the mud and even dust, "P. 221. " Cf. Bertrand Russell on science as "power knowledge" in The Scientific Outlool( (New York,... | |
| Jean Houston - 1993 - 348 pages
...indicative of the crises of our own day: As long on earth As our comparisons were stoutly upward With god and angels, we were men at least, But little lower...to the animals, Like people thrown out to delay the wolves.14 The most flamboyant subversion of the hierarchical order was prompted by the political writings... | |
| Robert Bernard Hass - 2002 - 244 pages
...worship, humor, conscientiousness Went long since to the dogs under the table. And served us right for having instituted Downward comparisons. As long on...least, But little lower than the gods and angels. (CPP6-P, 254) The subsequent "disillusion upon disillusion" that results from our having made too many... | |
| Robert Frost - 2001 - 324 pages
...worship, humor, conscientiousness Went long since to the dogs under the table. And served us right for having instituted Downward comparisons. As long on earth As our comparisons were stoutly upward 198 But little lower than the gods and angels. But once comparisons were yielded downward, Once we... | |
| Robert Frost - 2002 - 548 pages
...worship, humor, conscientiousness Went long since to the dogs under the table. And served us right for having instituted Downward comparisons. As long on earth As our comparisons were stoutly upward so With gods and angels, we were men at least, But little lower than the gods and angels. But once... | |
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