 248, note I. A motto for those days in New England might have been the words put in Rob Roy's mouth by Wordsworth : — Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough ; We '11 show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff.  The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 423by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Robert Ford - 1893 - 558 pages
...our part; Becoming, that mankind should learn That we are not to be surpass'd In fatherly concern. " Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough :— We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff. And, if the word had been fulfilled,... | |
 | Dorothy Wordsworth - 1894 - 368 pages
...our part; Becoming that mankind should learn That we are not to be surpass'd In fatherly concern. ' Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough ; I'll shew that I can help to frame A world of other stuff. ' I, too, will have my Kings that take... | |
 | Dorothy Wordsworth - 1894 - 382 pages
...our part; Becoming that mankind should learn That we are not to be surpass'd In fatherly concern. ' Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough; I'll shew that I can help to frame A world of other stuff. ' I, too, will have my Kings that take From... | |
 | William Wallace - 1894 - 516 pages
...Wordsworth's Rob Roy, they cry— 1 What need of books» Burn all the statutes and their shelves. We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff." On this iconoclastic age supervenes the attempt of Leibniz to combine in one all that was good in the... | |
 | Frederic John Gardiner - 1898 - 628 pages
...building, taken from the song of Rob Roy, the freebooter, in Wordsworth's poem, and was as follows:— Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough, We'll therefore try if we can mould, A world of other stuff. The attempt to frame a world after their... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pages
...Church Porch: "— Some great estates provide, but not A mastering mind ; so both are lost thereby. Page 248, note i. A motto for those days in New England...that we can help to frame A world of other stuff. I :r.: Page 253, note i. Treatise of Synesius on Providence, translated by Thomas Taylor and printed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 636 pages
...from time to time as long as books last. 2 XII HISTORIC NOTES OF LIFE AND LETTERS IN NEW ENGLAND " OF old things all are over old, Of good things none...that we can help to frame A world of other stuff. ' ' "Rob Roy's Grave," WORDSWORTH. FOR Joy and Beauty planted it With faerie gardens cheered, And boding... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 676 pages
...our part, Becoming that mankind should learn That we are not to be surpassed In fatherly concern. " Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough :— We'll show that we can help to frame A world of other stuff: And, if the word had been fulfilled,... | |
 | Dorothy Wordsworth - 1904 - 314 pages
...our part; Becoming that mankind should learn That we are not to be surpass'd In fatherly concern. " Of old things all are over old, Of good things none are good enough : I'll shew that I can help to frame A world of other stuff. " I, too, will have my Kings that take... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1914 - 536 pages
...part; " Becoming, that mankind should learn " That we are not to be surpass'd " In fatherly concern. " Of old things all are over old, " Of good things none are good enough :— " We'll shew that we can help to frame " A world of other stuff. " I, too, will have my Kings... | |
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