 THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that " this is I :" But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of "I," and "me," And finds "I am not what I see, And other than...  The Kindergarten for Teachers and Parents - Page 1421899Full view - About this book
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Casuistry - 1883 - 202 pages
...The Baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the hreast, Has never thought that this is I: But as he grows...And finds I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch. So rounds he to a separate mind, From whence clear memory may hegin, As through the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1883 - 740 pages
...that high place, and tell thee all. THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought..." But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the us of " I," and " me," And finds " I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch." So rounds... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - Ontology - 1883 - 178 pages
...personal agency and aims, and especially, perhaps, as Ueberweg suggests, from our sense of duty. " The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender...palm is pressed Against the circle of the breast, He never thought that this is I. But as he grows, he gathers much, And learns the use of I and Me,... | |
 | Noah Porter - Intellect - 1883 - 714 pages
...before me ; in that moment had 1 seen myself as I, for the •rut time and forever 1 " The baby, now to earth and sky, What time his tender palm Is pressed Against the circle of the breast, Ha* never thought that this Is I . Bnt as he grows, he gathers much, And learns the use of I and me,... | |
 | Edward Judson - 1883 - 654 pages
...consciousness of his being and power. " But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of '/' and 'Me' And finds ' I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.' " In the history of a social body, as well as of the human infant, the period of self-consciousness... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - English fiction - 1883 - 312 pages
...each one to learn himself, — possibly as preparatory to learning other things hereafter. He says : The baby new to earth and sky What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that ' this is I : ' But as he grows he gathers... | |
 | Edward Judson - Baptists - 1883 - 670 pages
...infant passes out of a mere sort of vegetable existence into a consciousness of his being and power. " But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of '/' and 'Me,' And finds ' I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.' " In the history... | |
 | F. Sydney Morris - 1884 - 106 pages
...of our own invidual existence, and knew naught of ' I ' and ' me,' and yet, in Tennyson's words — The baby, new to earth and sky, What time his tender...And finds I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch. So rounds he to a separate mind, From whence clear memory may begin, As through the... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1884 - 412 pages
...tell thee all. •*" xwv. "f^-^i THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought...gathers much, And learns the use of "I," and "me,* Aud finds "I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch." So rounds he to a separate mind... | |
 | James Sully - Educational psychology - 1884 - 748 pages
...of direction becomes very de1 This truth is rightly apprehended by Mr. Tennyson in the lines : — " The baby new to earth and sky, • What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that ' tins is I ' ; But as he grows he gathers... | |
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