Athens with a finger-tip, and neither of them figures in the Prices Current ; but they still lord it in the thought and action of every civilized man. Did not Dante cover with his hood all that was... JAMES RUSSELL LOWEEL AN ADDRESS - Página 40por GEORGE WIILLIAM CURTIS - 1892Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| James Russell Lowell - 1886 - 284 páginas
...for the real value of a country must be weighed in scales more delicate than the Balance of Trade. The garners of Sicily are empty now, but the bees...fetch honey from the tiny garden-plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a finger-tip, and neither of... | |
| Harvard University, Justin Winsor - 1887 - 410 páginas
...for the real value of a country must be weighed in scales more delicate than the " balance of trade." The garners of Sicily are empty now, but the bees...fetch honey from the tiny garden-plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may hide Judea with your thumb, Athens with a finger-tip, and neither of... | |
| Harvard University, Justin Winsor - 1887 - 404 páginas
...value of a country must be weighed in scales more delicate than the " balance of trade." The gamers of Sicily are empty now, but the bees from all climes...fetch honey from the tiny garden-plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may hide Judea with your thumb, Athens with a finger-tip, and neither of... | |
| Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1887 - 346 páginas
...real value of a country must be weighed in scales more delicate than the balance of trade. The gardens of Sicily are empty now, but the bees from all climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a... | |
| University of the State of New York - 1888 - 276 páginas
..." the eternal substance of greatness." And so let me close with another noble word of Mr. Lowell : "The garners of Sicily are empty now, but the bees from all climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may hide Judea with your thumb, Athens with your... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 338 páginas
...for the real value of a country must be weighed in scales more delicate than the Balance of Trade. The garners of Sicily are empty now, but the bees...fetch honey from the tiny garden-plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a fingertip, and neither of... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 334 páginas
...for the real value of a country must be weighed in scales more delicate than the Balance of Trade. The garners of Sicily are empty now, but the bees...fetch honey from the tiny garden-plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a fingertip, and neither of... | |
| George William Curtis - 1892 - 88 páginas
...is often profoundly poetic — that is, quick with imagination, but always in the form of prose, not of poetry. It is so finely compact of illustration,...tiny garden-plot of Theocritus." Such concentrated sentences are marvels of felicity, and, although unmetred, are as exquisite as songs. Charles Emerson... | |
| New York University - 1893 - 998 páginas
...the sons of Harvard on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the college — " the garners of Sicily are empty now, but the bees from all climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden plots of Theocritus." We never tire of our fond and familiar tale of American progress and development.... | |
| John Heyl Vincent, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, John Thomas McFarland - 1893 - 430 páginas
...value of a country must be weighed in scales more delicate than the balance of trade.' The gardens of Sicily are empty now, but the bees from all climes still fetch honey from the tiny garden plot of Theocritus. On a map of the world you may cover Judea with your thumb, Athens with a... | |
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