 Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in ; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce...  Poems - Página 293por James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 675 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1923 - 552 páginas
...age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; 10 The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest...sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold; is For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking: 'T is heaven alone... | |
 | James Russell Lowell, Horace Elisha Scudder - 1924 - 522 páginas
...our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Earth gets its priee for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest...in; At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounee of dross costs its ounee of gold; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a... | |
 | Connecticut. State Board of Education - 1891 - 412 páginas
...Quote the same indirectly. 5. (a) Express in your own words the thought contained in the following : "The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in ; The...and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a wh»le soul's tasking." (4) Explain fully line six. GEOGRAPHY. 1. (a) How many degrees are the tropics... | |
 | Rollo La Verne Lyman, Howard Copeland Hill - 1925 - 748 páginas
...auroral flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream. Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest...lie in; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, 318 Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold; For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 páginas
...MOTHERWKLL. JUNE. FROM "THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL." EARTH gets its price for what Karth gives us ; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us We bargain lor the graves we lie in ; At the Devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its... | |
 | 1926 - 780 páginas
...our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest...we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking: 'Tis heaven alone that is given away, 'Tis only God may be had for the asking; No price is set on the... | |
 | Edwin Holt Hughes - 1928 - 194 páginas
...claim a "free gospel" we may make this blunder. Mr. Lowell, in "The Vision of Sir Launfal," wrote: "At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce...we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking; "Tis heaven alone that is given away, "Tis only God may be had for the asking." All this is surely... | |
 | Boyd Edwards - 1928 - 288 páginas
...have read Lowell's "Vision of Sir Launfal" will remember that in the Prelude there are these lines: "At the Devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold." What does Lowell mean by that first line or two: "At the Devil's booth are all things sold?" Life 13... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1902 - 558 páginas
...a man knows full well that the baser metals cannot be converted into gold; and tho at credulity's " booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold," he realizes, too, the potent reality of truth ; that truth is neither a metaphysical abstraction nor... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1910 - 144 páginas
..."in .1 Fne»co,and Wordsworth's " The thought of our put yean In me doth brw0 textual benediction*. " For a cap and bells our lives we pay, Bubbles we buy with a whole soul's tasking t 'T is heaven alone that is given away, T is only God may be had for the asking ; Si No price is set... | |
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