 I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track ; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.  The Quarterly Review - Page 64edited by - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Poetry - 1891 - 168 pages
...half so spry. I'll not deny yon make A very pretty squirrel track; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut." EMERSON (Fable). A POET'S cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to nave, "Was much addicted... | |
 | Martha S. Hussey - Reading - 1891 - 158 pages
...not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track ; Talents differ ; all is well and wisely put ; If / cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut. FOR OLDER PUPILS. 1 When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for... | |
 | Arbor Day - 1892
...half so spry; I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track. Talents differ; all Is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut." — RW EMERSON. —11— Give the children holidays rand let these he jolly days) Grant freedom to... | |
 | Thomas Van Ness - Religion and science - 1892 - 248 pages
...mountain : " If I am not as large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. All is well and wisely put: If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut." Thus we are told that although Nature is so exacting in requiring her laws to be obeyed to the very... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1892 - 970 pages
...half so spry; I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track. Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut. A MESSAGE FROM BONY. His name was Johnny,— Johiiny Bolm, if there had been any record made of it,... | |
 | Phillips Brooks, H. L. S., L. H. S. - Meditations - 1892 - 384 pages
...he. You are doing what he cannot do. It is Emerson's fable of the Mountain and the Squirrel, — " If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut." " There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the stars." All our works, even the greatest,... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1892 - 970 pages
...; I'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track. Talents differ; all is well and wisely pat; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut. A MESSAGE FROM BONY. His name was Johnny, — Johnny Bohn, if there had been any record made of it,... | |
 | Children - 1893 - 112 pages
...are not so small as I, And not half so spry. I 'll not deny you make A very pretty squirrel track; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut." WRITTEN IN MARCH WHILE BESTING ON THE BRIDGE AT THE FOOT OF BROTHER'S WATER. The Cock is crowing, The... | |
 | Poetry - 1894 - 178 pages
...so spry. I'll not deny you make • A very pretty squirrel track ; Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut" A VISIT FROM THE SEA. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: Far from the loud sea beaches Where he goes fishing and... | |
 | Frank Townsend Southwick - Elocution - 1894 - 266 pages
...half so spry. I'll not deny you make a very pretty squirrel track ! Talents differ ; all is well and wisely put ; if I cannot carry forests on my back, neither can you crack a nut." — Emerson. The keynote to the oratory of Wendell Phillips lay in this: that it was essentially conversational... | |
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