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
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 292 pages
...which comes nearest to the universal sympathy, the heart, the home, the thought of every one of us*!" " 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." It is then the sorrow of common life,... | |
| WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 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. " I, too, will have my kings that... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 292 pages
...which comes nearest to the universal sympathy, the heart, the home, the thought of every one of us*!" " 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." It is then the sorrow of common life,... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 474 pages
...looked upon the olden time with disdain, and with that insolence of selfsufficiency which vaunts, that " 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."* It is this victory of Hermann over the... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 882 pages
...looked upon the olden time with disdain, and with that insolence of selfsufficiency which vaunts, that " 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."* It is this victory of Hermann over... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 882 pages
...upon the olden time with disdain, and with that insolence of self.. sufficiency which vaunts, that “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.”¿ It is this victory of Hermann over... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 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...that we can help to frame A world of other stuff. I, too, will have my kings that take From me the sign of life and death: Kingdoms shall shift about... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pages
...lead to. But still what urges it on is in the main a sort of blind passion. It merely feels that " of old things all are over old, of good things none are good enough." The case is like that of a people seized with a passion of emigration. It is true that we cannot dispense... | |
| William Eden (Baron Auckland.), William Eden Baron Auckland - 1862 - 882 pages
...inexperienced in the science of government, announced authoritatively in the words of Wordsworth's hero:— : 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 pretty stuff they made of it. As... | |
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