 A few strong instincts and a few plain rules Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought...  Emerson at Home and Abroad - Página 304por Moncure Daniel Conway - 1883 - 309 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Wendell Phillips - 1863 - 580 páginas
...but cousin to instinct, is a better guide than philosophy. Wordsworth said, of a similar awakening: " A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules, Among...of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind, at this nnh:\ppy day, Than all the pride of intellect and thought." That sunrise has colored the whole morning... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1864 - 580 páginas
...cousin to instinct, is a better guide than philosophy. Wordsworth said, of a similar awakening : " A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules, Among...of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind, at this unluippy day, Thau all the pride of intellect and thought." That sunrise has colored the whole morning... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 686 páginas
...been with him as Wordsworth said of the Tyroleso, — " A few strong instincts and a few plain rales, Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More...day Than all the pride of intellect and thought." In 1848, when complaint was made of the exercise of the veto power, as if that power were only a despotic... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1866 - 320 páginas
...contrasted with the Tyrol : " Her haughty schools Shall blush ; and may not we with sorrow say — A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules, Among...unhappy day, Than all the pride of intellect and thought ! " The regiment chiefly concerned was the 19th (for which regiment the word Wattepolowa, the scene... | |
 | John Edward Bowden - 1869 - 626 páginas
...were Tyrolese, with honour also. For when " sapient Germany lay depressed beneath the brutal sword," " A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules, Among...day, Than all the pride of intellect and thought." There were tottering old men with straggling hairs, who may well have remembered Hofer, and perchance... | |
 | John Edward Bowden - 1869 - 520 páginas
...were Tyrolese, with honor also. For when "sapient Germany lay depressed beneath the brutal sword," "A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules, Among...day. Than all the pride of intellect and thought." There were tottering old men with straggling hairs, who may well have remembered Hofer, and perchance... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 páginas
...deprest, Beneath the brutal sword? Her haughty schools [say. Shall blush ; and may not we with sorrow A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. Among...unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought ? AND is it among rude untutored dales, There, and there only, that the heart is true? And, rising... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 páginas
...depressed Beneath the brutal sword? Her haughty schools Shall blush; and may not we with sorrow say, A few strong instincts and a few plain rules, Among...day, Than all the pride of intellect and thought. AVollDswoliril. SCHILL. BRAVE Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight From Prussia's timid region.... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1874 - 396 páginas
...Man — but simple moral force and the strength of natural human feeling towards things loved by all. A few strong instincts and a few plain rules, Among...unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought. He sought for these in England, and in 1802 he could not find them. One knows the sonnet in which,... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1875 - 374 páginas
...Man—but simple moral force and the strength of natural human feeling towards things loved by all. A few strong instincts and a few plain rules, Among...at this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect aud thought. He sought for these in England, and in 1802 he could not find them. One knows the sonnet... | |
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