 | Robert Aspland - 1847 - 792 Seiten
...following Fable, in transcribing which we italicise some curious rhymes and an exquisite Americanism : " The Mountain and the Squirrel Had a quarrel, And the...And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as 1 , And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 244 Seiten
...shortness of our days, And promise, on thy Founder's truth. Long morrow to this mortal youth. FABLE. THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the...And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry : I'll not deny you make A... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 264 Seiten
...shortness of our days, And promise, on thy Founder's truth, Long morrow to this mortal youth. FABLE. THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel; And the...And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A... | |
 | 1876 - 396 Seiten
...correct account of all that wo have done. — Children's Treasury. THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQJJIEEEL. The Mountain and the Squirrel Had a quarrel, And the...And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry : I'll not deny you make A... | |
 | 1857 - 300 Seiten
...poor Wagtail ! see, That the Hawk was made for thee ? J. MONTGOMERY. THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL. THE Mountain and the Squirrel Had a quarrel, And the...Little Prig ; " Bun replied, You are doubtless very big ; THE GEANDFATHEK. 265 But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a... | |
 | William Allingham - 1860 - 316 Seiten
...all is she ! HOOD. FABLE. r| "'HE Mountain and the Squirrel J. Had a quarrel, And the former call'd the latter " Little Prig : Bun replied, " You are...And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry : I'll not deny you make A... | |
 | 1860 - 600 Seiten
...production of humour. " The Mountain and the Squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the Mountain called the Squirrel ' Little Prig.' Bun replied, You are doubtless very...And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I ! And not half so spry. I'll not deny you make A... | |
 | 1860 - 598 Seiten
...the archest of turns in the curling tail. His faith in himself is enough to move a mountain. " If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I." That puts things in a different light to what the Mountain has been accustomed to. As some one said... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 Seiten
...was wed in, That her spirit might have rest. A. Tennyson LXV THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL A fable The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the...And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry : I'll not deny you make A... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 Seiten
...spirits ! the prize is before ye, A crown never fading, a kingdom of glory ! K FABLE. — Emerson. THE Mountain and the Squirrel Had a quarrel, And the...And I think it no disgrace To occupy my place. If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry : I'll not deny you make A... | |
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The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former called the latter 'Little Prig; Bun replied, 'You are doubtless very big; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace... 
