 ... up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour, or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary or...  Demosthenes - Page xxiby Demosthenes - 1859 - 572 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1888 - 402 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring ; in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labour or devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its perfect... | |
 | John Milton - 1891 - 236 pages
...haunts are, he wisses not. ' Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home; not sleeping... but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound...the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors," PW III. 112. Among the Milton MSS found at Netherby Hall in Cumberland and printed... | |
 | WILLIAM E. CHANNING, D.D. - 1891 - 1074 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter often ere the sound (¡f any bell awake men to labor, or devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary or memory have its full fraught... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...habits, he thus gives an account of his morning hours. "Those morning haunts are where they •hould be, at home: not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits...the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its full fraught... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1893 - 374 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor or devotion; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its perfect... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 366 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor or devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its perfect... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1894 - 340 pages
...thus describes his own habits : " In winter, often ere the sound of any bell wakes man to labour or devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or to cause them to be read till the attention be ready, or memory have its full... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Conduct of life - 1894 - 480 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring ; in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awakens men to labor or devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till attention be weary or memory have its full freight,... | |
 | John Milton Scudder - 1895 - 940 pages
...stirring early in the morning — "in winter, often ere the sound of any bell wakes man to labor or devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or to cause them to be read till the attention be ready, or memory have its full... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 490 pages
...irregular feast, but up and stirring ; in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awakens men to labor or devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till attention be weary or memory have its full freight,... | |
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