 Khodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. — Emerson : The  Primary Education - Página 2421898Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 páginas
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Ehodora! if the sages ask thee why . This charm is wasted on...for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 344 páginas
...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 wasted on...for seeing, Then Beauty 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 338 páginas
...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 wasted on...for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose! I never thought to ask, I never knew: But, in my simple ignorance,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 368 páginas
...might the red-bird come his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Rhodora I if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why them wert there, 0 rival of the rose I I never thought to ask, I never knew; But, in my simple... | |
 | William Morley Egglestone - 1883 - 136 páginas
...might the red-bird come, his plumes to cool, And court the flower that cheapens his array. Ehodora ! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on...for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being : Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose ! I never thought to ask, I never knew : But, in my simple... | |
 | John Badcock (F.R.M.S.) - 1883 - 220 páginas
...your jewel be of pure water, A rose.diamond or a white,— But whether it dazzle me with light." " Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being."—EMERSON. A GLASS slide, on which are mounted a number of Diatoms, carefully selected and... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...thine. Good By. What are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet ? Ibid. If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. The Shodora. Here once the embattled farmers stood. And fired the shot heard round the world. The silent... | |
 | 1883 - 594 páginas
...texts, for they are not expensive decorations ; their use and tb beauty are alike a plea for them, for "if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being." Some people, doubtless, object strongly against school decorati« that is pictorial if it represents... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | J. M. Forbes - 1884 - 740 páginas
...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 wasted on the marsh and sky, Dear, tell them that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for... | |
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