 THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no...  Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Poet - Page 323by Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ellis Publishing Company - 1896 - 240 pages
...Liberty, Of thee I sing. 11. Thus speaketh the Prophet : " He is truest, who to himself is true." 12. The Mountain and the Squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter " Little Prig."—Emerson. 13. You will find the passage in Canto V. of Part Two of Volume Six. 14. This Epicurean... | |
 | Lottie E. Jones, S. W. Black - 1897 - 170 pages
...MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL. moun tain quar rel doubt l6ss w6ath er dis grace trdck f6r 6sts for mer The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the...And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I 'm not so large as you, You 're not so small as I, And not half so spry; I 'll not deny you make... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 pages
...Compare Tennyson's — " Flower in the crannied wall." 12. Similarly in Emerson's " Fable: " — " The mountain: and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And...former called the latter 'Little Prig;' Bun replied, 1 You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1897 - 230 pages
...mouth of the selfish, saucy girl who thought of no one but herself. CHARLES PERRATJLT. ^ A- FABLE. l The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter "Little Prig.;1 Bun replied, " You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken... | |
 | William Wilfred Birdsall, Rufus Matthew Jones - 1897 - 602 pages
...fooled by hate, Writhes within the dragon coil, Reserved to a speechless fate. MOUNTAIN AND SQUIRREL. HE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter Prig." Bun replied : " You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken... | |
 | William Caswell Jones - 1897 - 368 pages
...illustrates this figure. The Mountain and the Squirrel Had a quarrfi! ; And the Mountain called the Squirrel "Little Prig." Bun replied, " You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts 6f things and weather Must be-takfin in t6gether T6 make ttp a year And a sphere ; And I think }t no... | |
 | Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews - 1898 - 370 pages
...fox's retreat revealed more chicken's feathers than would guarantee my proportion of one to twenty. " But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together To make up a year And a sphere," Not only are we apt to lose sight of the beneficent phase of wild life, but we are quite as prone to... | |
 | Martin Grove Brumbaugh - 1899 - 232 pages
...wonderful circle caused its maker to be chosen to decorate the beautiful church. XXIX.— A FABLE. The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the...taken in together To make up a year And a sphere. If I am not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry ; " I'll not deny you... | |
 | 1931 - 288 pages
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