 O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools and the learned clan ; For...  The Christian Examiner - Page 2941869Full view - About this book
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...blackbird's roundelay, And vulgar feet have never trod A spot that is sacred to thought and God. O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece...shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan ; For what arc they all, in their high conceit, When man in the... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...roundelay, And vulgar feet have never trod, — A spot that is sacred to thought and God. Oh, when I am Fame ? Hear how it thunders ! Would you stand On high Olympus, far renown'd, N strctch'd beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...to thought and God. O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Grecce and Koine ; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, 1 laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan ; For what are... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...roundelay, And vulgar feet have never trod, — A spot that is sacred to thought and God. Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome ; And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride... | |
 | George Melville Baker - Elocution - 1879 - 734 pages
...never trod, A spot that is sacred to thought and God. Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome ; And when I am stretched...evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan ; For what are they all in their high conceit,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1921 - 566 pages
...to lay and brood and from whence he hurls his defy at the world to disturb him, when he says — "O, when I am stretched beneath the pines. Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man." With this age-old joy in the pine before me: with this history-old celebration of its... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...to thought and God. 0, when I am safe in my sylvan hume, I tread on the pride of Greece and Koine : me sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome, As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To lure and the pride of man, At the sophist schools, and the learned clan ; For what arc they all, in... | |
 | Education - 1921 - 744 pages
...ways now, come later back, Op waves and hedges still they burn. Emerson — "Goodbye." O, when I am safe in my sylvan home I tread on the pride of Greece and Eome ; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at... | |
 | Minot Judson Savage - Sermons, American - 1881 - 690 pages
...roundelay, And vulgar feet have never trod ; A spot that is sacred to thought and God. " Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece...shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophists' schools and the learned clan ; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1881 - 696 pages
...roundelay, And vulgar feet have never trod; A spot that is sacred to thought and God. " Oh, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece...shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophists' schools and the learned clan ; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in... | |
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