 | 1856 - 386 pagina’s
...superficial faculties, his self-love and arithmetical understanding, what will grow there. Carlyle. Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...concerned ; but he trolled for the golden fishes and caught some golden fancies with them. " Time is bnt the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while...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 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 pagina’s
...that he does. The hare in its extremity cries like a 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 slides away, but eternity remains. I would... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1886 - 328 pagina’s
...says one of his reviewers. " Time," says Thoreau, in his fanciful way, "is but a stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy...fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars." He worshipped Nature in all her forms, and depicted with a loving and exuberant fancy hills and water,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 174 pagina’s
...best faculties 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...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... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pagina’s
...deadliest foe ; it 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...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 pagina’s
...quickly 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... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 390 pagina’s
...uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it. Olympus is but the outside of the earth everywhere." "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it;...fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars." Sometimes he runs into rhyme and becomes a poet confessed ; and though his verse, as such, is very... | |
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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 skj, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. 
