| Charles Dana Wilber - 1881 - 520 pagine
...distributed of all vegetable beings, and is at once the type of our life and the emblem of our mortality. Lying in the sunshine among the buttercups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of that mimic wilderness, our earliest recollections are of gra«s; and when the... | |
| Rufus Blanchard - 1882 - 558 pagine
...distributed to all vegetable beings, and is at once the type of our life and the emblem of our mortality. Lying in the sunshine among the buttercups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of the mimic wilderness, our earliest recollections are of grass; and when the fitful... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pagine
...in the sunshine among the buttercups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of that mimic wilderness, our earliest...the fitful fever is ended, and the foolish wrangle of the market and forum is closed, grass heals over the scar which our descent into the bosom of the... | |
| David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 454 pagine
...distributed of all vegetable beings, and is at once the type of our life and the emblem of our mortality. Lying in the sunshine among the buttercups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of that mimic wilderness, our earliest recollections are of grass; and when the... | |
| Howard Louis Conard - 1901 - 810 pagine
...water. 84 85 light and air, those three physical facts which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grass. Lying in the sunshine...the fitful fever is ended, and the foolish wrangle of the market and the forum is closed, grass heals over the scar which our descent into the bosom of... | |
| John James Ingalls - 1902 - 552 pagine
...distributed of all vegetable beings, and is at once the type of our life and the emblem of our mortality. Lying in the sunshine among the buttercups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of that mimic wilderness, our earliest recollections are of grass; and when the... | |
| Robert Love Taylor - 1907 - 410 pagine
...Lying in the sunshine among buttercups and dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of that mimic wilderness, our earliest...the fitful fever is ended and the foolish wrangle of the market and the forum is closed, grass heals over the scar which our descent into the bosom of... | |
| 1907 - 902 pagine
...the sunshine among the buttercups and the dandelions of May, scarcely higher in intelligence than the minute tenants of that mimic wilderness, our earliest...the fitful fever Is ended, and the foolish wrangle of the market and forum Is closed, grass heals over the scar which our descent Into the bosom of the... | |
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