| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...than human seer, Yellow-breeched philosopher! Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, 55 Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff,...land so far and fast, Thou already slumberest deep; 60 Woe and want thou canst outsleep; Want and woe, which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous. FORBEARANCE.... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...than human seer, Yellow-breech'd philosopher, Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is swoet Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff and take the wheat. When the fieree north-western blast Cools sea and land so far and fast, — Thou already slumberest deep, Wo... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 pages
...he pass'd. Wiser far than human seer, Yellow-breech'd philosopher, Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet Thou dost mock at fate and care,...so far and fast, — Thou already slumberest deep, Wo and want thou canst outsleep ; Want and wo which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous. THE RHODORA.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 pages
...passed. Wiser far than human seer, Yellow-breeched philosopher ! Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care,...ridiculous. BERRYING. ' MAY be true what I had heard, — Earth 'sa howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force,' Said I, strolling through the pastures,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 560 pages
...to remember the anecdote, he may flatter himself that he can see a Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care,...woe, which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous." |se of meaning in them. But if unlearned or forgetful, aference, no direct statement, no charitable... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 pages
...he passed. Wiser far than human seer, Yellow-breeched philosopher! Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care,...so far and fast, Thou already slumberest deep,— Wo and want thou canst out-sleep,— Want and wo which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous. BERRYING.... | |
| 1847 - 784 pages
...passed. " Wiser far than human seer. Yellow-breeched philosopher ! Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff, and lake Ihe wheat. When ihe fierce northwestern blast Cools sea and land so far and fait, Thou already... | |
| 1847 - 814 pages
...passed. " Wiser far than human seer. Yellow-breeched philosopher ! Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff, and lake Ihe wheat. When the ñerce northwestern blast Cools sea and land so far and faat, Thou already... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 384 pages
...passed. " Wiser far than human seer, Yellow-breeched philosopher, Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care,...woe, which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous." the fancy ; but, nevertheless, this will always bo considered a gem of delightful composition. We must... | |
| Thomas Powell - 1850 - 382 pages
...passed. " Wiser far than human seer, Yellow-breeched philosopher, Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care,...woe, which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous." This quotation, somewhat too long for our plan, we really had not the heart to shorten. It is a fine... | |
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