 O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools and the learned clan ; For...  Education - Page 2851921Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 pages
...to thought and God. O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome ; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the...high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? THE RHODORA. — THE HUMBLE-BEE. 39 THE RHODORA: ON BEING ASKED, WHENCE IS THE FLOWEB ? IN May, when... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1883 - 498 pages
...to thought and God. Oh, when I 'm safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome ; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the...clan ; For what are they all in their high conceit, Where man in the bush with God may meet ? INDEX OF FIRST LINES. Aliou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...Hid. Good by, proud world ! I 'm going home : Thou art not my friend, and I 'm not thine. Good By. What are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet? Ibid. If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. The Rhodora. Here once... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...halls, to court and street, To frozen hearts aud hasting feet." And a little further on he says : — " When I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening...man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan." Even the recognized literary men of the time paid him little attention. The elder Dana, in those days... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - 442 pages
...have never trod, — A spot that is sacred to thought and God. 4. O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist...schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all, iu their high conceit, When man in the hush with God may meet ? roun'de-lay, a simple, lively, rural... | |
 | Albert Ellery Berg - 1884 - 826 pages
...to thought and God. Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome ; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the...evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the Sophist schools, and the learned clan ; For what are they all, in their high conceit,... | |
 | Mary E. Jackson - 1885 - 418 pages
...woman. "0, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome; And when 1 arn stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star...so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride oT1 man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all, in their high conceit,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 554 pages
...calendar months and days." " Set not thy foot on graves." " Good-bye, proud world ! I 'm going home." " What are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? " " — If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." " Leave all thy pedant... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 592 pages
...calendar months and days." " Set not thy foot on graves." " Good-bye, proud world ! I 'm going home." " What are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? " " — If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." " Leave all thy pedant... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...on the pride of Greece and Rome;4 And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening-star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist 5 schools, and the learned clan ; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush6... | |
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