 ... 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
 | 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 - Boston (Mass.) - 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 - 368 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 - 942 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,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Success - 1896 - 488 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 - English poetry - 1899 - 350 pages
...lembec fails him, to give him and envy the more vexation, I will tell him. Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting...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... | |
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