Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose! An Emerson Calendar - Página 44por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 117 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 páginas
...shown ; Both are most valued where they best are known. 347 Lyttelton : Soliloquy of a Beauty. Line 2. If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. 348 Emerson: The Ithodora. Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny... | |
| John Tyndall - 1884 - 676 páginas
...asked the use of the beautiful rhodora — Why thon wert there, 0 rival of the rose ! I never thonght to ask, I never knew, But in my simple ignorance suppose The self-same Power that bronght me here brought yon.1 A few exceptions to the general state of union of the particles of the... | |
| Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 páginas
...gives his answer in words of the greatest simplicity, and which have yet the note of true poetry : . if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why them wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
| Florine Thayer McCray, Esther Louise Smith - 1884 - 314 páginas
...wheels and falling back into line with the others, "so much for impressionism. I can do better than that: ' If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being.'" " Original, of course! Suppose nobody knows Emerson but Miss Wright," quickly retorted Mrs. Mather.... | |
| John Tyndall - 1884 - 660 páginas
...brotherhood affirmed by the poet, when asked the use of the beautiful rhodora — Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew, Bnt in my simple ignorance suppose The self-same Power that brought me here brought you.1 A few exceptions... | |
| 1885 - 456 páginas
...: Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. 2. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is...is its own excuse for being. Why thou wert there, 0 rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew ; But in my simple ignorance suppose The... | |
| 1885 - 686 páginas
...gay ; Here might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is...is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, О rival of the rose, I never thought to ask, I never knew : But, in my simple ignorance, suppose The... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 544 páginas
...home." " What are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? " " — If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." " Leave all thy pedant lore apart, God hid the whole world in thy heart." " And conscious Law is King... | |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1885 - 342 páginas
...home." " What are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? " " — If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being." " Leave all thy pedant lore apart, God hid the whole world in thy heart." " And conscious Law is King... | |
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