 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 562 pages
...progress of the year. I hearing get, who had hut eon, And sight, who had but eyes hefore, I momenta live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. Sitting with our faces now upstream, we studied the landscape by degree?, as one unrolls a map, rock,... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1894 - 146 pages
...Some clear divine electuary, And I, who had but sensual been, Grow sensible, and as God is, am wary. " I hearing get who had but ears, And sight who had...years, And truth discern who knew but learning's lore. " I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas... | |
 | George Herman Ellwanger - 1895 - 278 pages
...than the associations which the autumnal season wove, that he wrote the memorable lines : — « ' I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...years, And truth discern who knew but learning's lore." His searching eye and investigating mind bring the wild flowers and wild creatures closer than do the... | |
 | William Garrett Horder - 1896 - 408 pages
...heart hath lit, Then will the verse for ever wear, — Time cannot bend the line which God has writ. I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime of life ; Of manhood's strength it is the flower,... | |
 | George Herman Ellwanger - 1896 - 328 pages
...scene than the associations which the autumnal season wove, that he wrote the memorable lines : — "I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...who lived but years, And truth discern who knew but learning' s lore. * * His searching eye and investigating mind bring the wild flowers and wild creatures... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 684 pages
...Some clear divine electuary, And I, who had but sensual been, Grow sensible, and as God is, am wary. I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 646 pages
...Some clear divine electuary, And I, who had but sensual been, Grow sensible, and as God is, am wary. I hearing get, who had but ears. And sight, who had...years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around.... | |
 | William Sloane Kennedy - 1897 - 274 pages
...their songs and coats. After a month of hard daily walking and observing I could say, with Thoreau, " I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before." Many persons have, as I did, a knowledge of, say, some twenty-five or thirty of the more common species... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 954 pages
...heart hath lit, Then will the verse forever wear, — Time cannot bend the line which God has writ. I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had...years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. Now chiefly is my natal hour, And only now my prime of life; Of manhood's strength it is the flower,... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1900 - 598 pages
...Lord Bacon, Pope, Addison, and Walpole. Through them we may say, in Thoreau's words: " I hearing got who had but ears, And sight who had but eyes before;...years, And truth discern who knew but learning's lore." These men, and such as they, made garden literature possible for they recognised the infinite beauty... | |
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I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore. 
