 | 1856 - 386 pagini
...arithmetical understanding, what will grow there. Carlyle. Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it ; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom,...fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. Thoreau. The body — that is dust ; the soul — 'tis a bud of eternity. Culverwel. No subject of... | |
 | 1865 - 476 pagini
...difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail;" the stream of time is shallow,"! would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars;" if a man is really alive, he is not out of danger of dying, so that he need not try to shield himself,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pagini
...fishes and caught some golden fancies with them. " Time is bnt the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom, and...detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides awav, but eternity remains. I would drinK deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars."... | |
 | 1865 - 456 pagini
...difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail;" the stream of time is shallow, " I would drink deeper ; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars;" if a man is really alive, he is not out of danger of dying, so that he need not try to shield himself,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 278 pagini
...; if we are alive, let us go about our business. Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it ; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and...been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. The intellect is a cleaver ; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things. I... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 pagini
...child.' 'Time is but the stream I go a- fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the candy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current...fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.' Here, finally, is the mythical record of his disappointments: ' 1 long ago lost a hound, a bay horse,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 pagini
...concentrated in it.^ WALDEK, p.'ioo. The shallow^ Time is but the stream I go ttoe. a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and...fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. w«j»», p. u*. Mortality In accumulating property for mortality. ourselves or our posterity, in founding... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pagini
...if we are alive, let us go about our business. ( Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and...been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things. I... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pagini
...leaves no opening for the lurking fiend. — WUcox. Time is bnt a stream I go a filing in. I drink at it ; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom,...fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. — T/ioreau. We take no note of time but from its loss. — Young. Who shall contend with time, —... | |
 | 1899 - 704 pagini
...do thoughts stir in the minds of men, Schiller. Time ,s but a stream I go a-fishing in. I tí drink at it ; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom,...would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom 15 pebbly with stars Тпогеам, Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure... | |
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it ; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. 
