| Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1842 - 642 páginas
...Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou ; The... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 páginas
...Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou ; The... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 páginas
...Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. The wood is wiser far than thou : The... | |
| M. Edgeworth Lazarus - 1851 - 286 páginas
...Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. RALPH WALDO EMERSON. PREFACE, ALLEGORICAL... | |
| 1872 - 806 páginas
...returns.0 GALAHAD (drawing a long breath). How beautiful ! THE ANCIENT. " Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of Beauty there. And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake." ZOILUS. Peccavi ! THE ANCIENT. Then... | |
| John Tyndall - 1860 - 492 páginas
...a feeble idea of these exquisite effects ; — CHASING PRODUCED BY WAVES. 233 " Thou canst not wave thy staff in the air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the hrow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake." Now, all that we have said regarding... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1907 - 876 páginas
...designs of rough and unmistakable charm. But where is beauty absent ? Thou canst not wave thy staff in air Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there And the ripples in rhyme the oar forsake. In these lodges the men in summer went... | |
| 1879 - 736 páginas
...Whether she work on land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And ripples in rhyme the oar forsake.'' As yet no attempt has been made to show... | |
| Frederick Thompson Mott - 1868 - 172 páginas
...Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air. Or dip thy paddle in the lake. But it carves the bow of beauty there. And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. RW EMERSON. Picturesqueness is the... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1892 - 996 páginas
...Whether she work in land or sea, Or hide underground her alchemy. Thou canst not wave thy staff in air, Or dip thy paddle in the lake, But it carves the bow of beauty there, And the ripples in rhymes the oar forsake. But, as I say, the recantation of beauty,... | |
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