 A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all. What would it avail to tell you anecdotes of a sweet and wonderful boy, such as we solace and sadden ourselves with at home every morning and evening?  Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 13by Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1904 - 27 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1888 - 722 pages
..."You can never sympathise with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man,...sadden ourselves with at home every morning and evening ? n On his death bed, forty-one years later, some of his last words wore " Oh, that beautiful boy !... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1883 - 308 pages
...wrote: never sympathize with me : you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. Л few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man,...solace and sadden ourselves with at home every morning? From a perfect health and as happy a life and as happy influences as ever child enjoyed, he was hurried... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1883 - 308 pages
...can never sympathize with me : you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man. and now the poorest of all. What wouid it avail to tell you anecdotes of a sweet and wonderful boy. such as we solace and sadden ourselves... | |
 | 1888 - 1004 pages
...to Carlylc] ; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago 1 accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest...anecdotes of a sweet and wonderful boy, such as we sadden and solace ourselves with at home every morning and evening ? His grief proves that depths of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 572 pages
...with me,' he wrote to Carlyle ; 'yon can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest poorest of all. What would it avail to tell you anecdotes of a sweet and wonderful boy, such as we... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 230 pages
...in God, in Godhead found." i "A few weeks ago," wrote Emerson to Carlyle, on occasion of his loss, " I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all." " Your calm tone of deep, quiet sorrow," returned Carlyle, " coming in on the rear of your trivial... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1893 - 640 pages
...can never sympathize with me ; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man,...and sadden ourselves with at home every morning and every evening? From a perfect health and as happy a life aud as happy influences as ever child enjoyed,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 pages
..."piece of love and sunshine '' — was taken away. " A few weeks ago," wrote the stricken father, " I accounted myself a very rich man, and now* the poorest 'of all." His grief blossomed in the " Threnody," one of the noblest elegies ever written. To his overwhelming... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 pages
...that "piece of love and sunshine" — was taken away. "A few weeks ago," wrote the stricken father, " I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all." His grief blossomed in the " Threnody," one of the noblest elegies ever written. To his overwhelming... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 574 pages
...can never sympathize with me ; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all. . . . From a perfect health and as happy a life and as happy influences as ever child enjoyed, he was... | |
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