 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1878 - 676 pages
...science. His words are: " 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...For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet. The belief of one age is the superstition of the next; so that there... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome ; And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy...For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet! RW EMERSON : Good-Bye, Proud World. Of airy pomp, and fleeting joys,... | |
 | George Melville Baker - 1879 - 734 pages
...to thought and God. Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at 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,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1921 - 566 pages
...to lay and brood and from whence he hurls his defy at the world to disturb him, when he says — "O, when I am stretched beneath the pines. Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man." With this age-old joy in the pine before me: with this history-old celebration of its... | |
 | 1921 - 744 pages
...Emerson — "Goodbye." O, when I am safe in my sylvan home I tread on the pride of Greece and Eome ; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the...For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? Emerson — "April." The hedge is gemmed with diamonds, The air... | |
 | Charles McKnight - 1873 - 532 pages
...when I am stretch'd beneath the pines Where the evening star so holily shines, I laugh at the love and pride of man ; At the Sophist schools, and the learned...For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet. JR. W. Emerton. THE moon was now abroad, casting its silver sheen... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...to thought and God. 0, when I am safe in my sylvan hume, I tread on the pride of Greece and Koine : me sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome, As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To lure and the pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan ; For what arc they all, in... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...and the loftiness of his aims. It shows his intense love of nature, and the devoutness of his mind. " When I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening...For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? " m. • MINISTRY. ON the llth of January, 1829, Emerson received... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 pages
...my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome ; And when I am stretched beneath the pine>% Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at...For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet j THE HUMBLE-BEE. Burly, dozing, humble-bee, Where thou art is clime... | |
 | Hezekiah Butterworth, Robert Mackenzie - 1881 - 504 pages
...sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome ; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, When the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore...For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? " Alcott followed Emerson's example soon, and left Boston society... | |
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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... 
