 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...fraud." Not without a need came the warning voice — "What boots thy zeal, 0 glowing friend, That wotild indignant rend The northland from the south ? Wherefore ! to what good end ? Boston Bay and Bunker Sill Would serve things still I Things are of the snake. The horseman serves the horse, The neatherd... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 266 pages
...Virtue palters; Right is hence; Freedom praised, but hid ; Funeral eloquence Rattles the coffin-lid. What boots thy zeal, O glowing friend, That would indignant rend The northland from the south 1 Wherefore 1 to what good end ? Boston Bay and Bunker Hill Would serve things still; — Things are... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 pages
...Virtue palters ; Eight is hence : Freedom praised, but hid ; Funeral eloquence Eattles the coffin-lid. What boots thy zeal, O glowing friend, That would indignant rend The northland from the south 1 Wherefore ? to what good end ? Boston Bay and Bunker Hill Would serve things still ; — Things are... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...the negro-holder ! " What boots thy zeal, 0 glowing friend, who wouldst indignant rend The uorthland from the south ? Wherefore ? to what good end ? Boston...would serve things still ; — things are of the snake ! 'T is the day of the chattel, — web to weave, and corn to grind; Things are in the saddle, and... | |
 | Frank Preston Stearns - 1892 - 260 pages
...ode so full of pith, sense, and concentrated invective that it may be fairly said to stand alone. " What boots thy zeal, O glowing friend, That would...serve things still ; — Things are of the snake." This is a truly original argument against the dissolution of the Union. " Virtue falters ; Right is... | |
 | John Thomas Codman - 1894 - 368 pages
...Quite a little discussion took place between two young persons as to the propriety of the lines, " What boots thy zeal, O glowing friend, That would indignant rend The Northland from the Sputh ? " The one party contended that " boots " was entirely inadmissible in poetic phrase. " What'... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 348 pages
...hence ; Freedom praised, but hid ; Funeral eloquence Eattles the coffin-lid. What boots thy zeal, 0 glowing friend, That would indignant rend The northland from the south ? Wherefore 1 to what good end 1 Boston Bay and Bunker Hill Would serve things still ; — Things are of the snake.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 574 pages
...Virtue palters ; Right is hence ; Freedom praised, but hid ; Funeral eloquence Rattles the coffin-lid.1 What boots thy zeal, O glowing friend, That would...horseman serves the horse, The neatherd serves the neat, ODE Yet do not I implore The wrinkled shopman to my soum Nor bid the unwilling senator Ask votes of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 602 pages
...Virtue palters ; Right is hence ; Freedom praised, but hid ; Funeral eloquence Rattles the coffin-lid.1 What boots thy zeal, O glowing friend, That would...horseman serves the horse, The neatherd serves the neat, ODE The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat ; 'T is the day of the chattel, Web to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 566 pages
...Virtue palters ; Right is hence ; Freedom praised, but hid ; Funeral eloquence Rattles the coffin-lid.1 What boots thy zeal, O glowing friend, That would...serve things still ; — Things are of the snake. The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat ; 'T is the day of the chattel, Web to weave,... | |
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Boston Bay and Bunker Hill Would serve things still; Things are of the snake. 
