 I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me...  The Californian - Página 431880Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1875 - 80 páginas
...was her familiar friend ; the shebear her nurse and mother. She could have said with Whitman, — " I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and selfcontain'd ; They do not sweat and whine about their condition ; They do not lie awake in the dark... | |
 | 1928 - 692 páginas
...and modern." He envied the placidity of animals, their indifference to the tumult of life about them: "I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd. I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition.... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1883 - 312 páginas
...shows you that the naivete is due to a cunning and bold contradiction of every fact in the case. " I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd : . I stand and look at them long and long. Not one is dissatisfied — not one is demented... | |
 | 1884 - 928 páginas
...combats one phase of modern vagaries. " Listen to Walt Whitman's reverie, as he looks at some cattle: • I think I could turn and live with Animals, they are so placid and self contained I stand and look at them long and long ; Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1884 - 882 páginas
...combats one phase of modern vagaries. "Listen to Walt Whitman's reverie, as he looks at some cattle : ' I think I could turn and live with Animals, they are so placid and self contained I stand and look at them long and long ; Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 268 páginas
...me is a miracle." " A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." " I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd ; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 272 páginas
...me is a miracle." " A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books." " I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd ; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1889 - 536 páginas
...surpasses any statue. And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels. — Ibid. ANIMALS. I Think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition.... | |
 | 1889 - 532 páginas
...surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels. — Ibid. ANIMALS. I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at ihcm long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition,... | |
 | Thomas William Herringshaw - 1890 - 1032 páginas
...And no man understands any greatness of goodness but his own, or the Indications of his own. ANIMALS. I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-oontain'd, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition.... | |
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