More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of : in every path He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan. O mighty love ! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him. Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 61by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sherwin B. Nuland - 2001 - 292 pages
...gladly cure our flesh, because they Find their acquaintance there. More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of. In every path He treads down that...befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan. O mighty love! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him. Herbert chose the word acquaintance... | |
| William Joseph Jackson - 2004 - 346 pages
...Find their acquaintance there . . . More servants wail on man Than he'll take notice of. In evers- path. He treads down that which doth befriend him When sickness makes h1m pale and wan. Oh mighty love! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him.15 But such a togetherness... | |
| Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...emphasize the hierarchy, even if the servant is also a friend: More servants wait on man Than he'll take notice of. In every path, He treads down that...befriend him When sickness makes him pale and wan. Oh mighty love! Man is one world, and hath Another to attend him. (E&L 44-45) This "mighty love" takes... | |
| Diane Kelsey McColley - 2007 - 284 pages
...emblematic. In "Man" Herbert notes carelessness of medicinal herbs: "More servants wait on Man / Then he'll take notice of: in every path / He treads down that which doth befriend him, / When sicknesse makes him pale and wan."10 Despite the personification, this statement is not emblematic... | |
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