It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief. It is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper... The Bookman - Página 4381919Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1912 - 1002 páginas
...Children's Chatter " we may use the words of Francis Thompson : " Know you what it is to be a child ? It is to be something very different from the man...loveliness, to believe in belief " ; it is — To see a world in a grajn of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower ; Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,... | |
| Algernon Blackwood - 1909 - 372 páginas
...ETC. MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON Know you what it it to be a child ? It ii to be something very different from the man of to-day....love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief j it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear ; it is to turn pumpkins into... | |
| Francis Thompson - 1909 - 104 páginas
...stoop to the child, so much easier to lift the child up to you. Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man...streaming from the waters of baptism ; it is to believe in love,to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach... | |
| Francis Thompson - 1909 - 146 páginas
...stoop to the child, so much easier to lift the child up to you. Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man...to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of 28 baptism ; it is to believe in love,to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so... | |
| Francis Thompson - 1909 - 108 páginas
...stoop to the child, so much easier to lift the child up to you. Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man...to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of 28 SHELLEY baptism ; it is to believe in love, to believe -L . in loveliness, to believe in belief;... | |
| 1912 - 842 páginas
...Children's Chatter " we may use the words of Francis Thompson : " Know you what it is to be a child ? It is to be something very different from the man...loveliness, to believe in belief " ; it is — To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower ; Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,... | |
| John Thomson - 1912 - 88 páginas
...himself asks " Know you what it is to be a child ? " he gives the answer : " It is to have a spirit still streaming " from the waters of baptism. It is to believe...little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ears ; it "is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, " lowness into loftiness, and nothing... | |
| Alice Meynell - 1913 - 76 páginas
.... for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul. . . ." And previously he had written, 26 "It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism." Were elves really of any importance to him? We must take his word for it, even though we may make a... | |
| American Institute of Child Life - 1914 - 28 páginas
...Education of the Child From One to Three." COPYRIGHT, 1914 AMERICAN INSTITUTE Of CHILD LTV-E "To be a child is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ears ; . . . and it is to turn pumpkins into coaches and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness and... | |
| Edith Emily Read Mumford - 1915 - 136 páginas
...soon enough, but not yet. For what does it mean to be a child ? " It is," writes Francis Thompson, " to be something very different from the man of to-day....little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ears ; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into... | |
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