 THESE emmets, how little they are in our eyes ! We tread them to dust, and a troop of them dies, Without our regard or concern ; Yet as wise as we are, if we went to their school. There 's many a sluggard and many a fool, Some lessons of wisdom might...  The Works of the English Poets: Watts - Pàgina 340per Samuel Johnson - 1779Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1888 - 916 pàgines
...their trust when their house is on fire. It is surely in Watts' s Divine and Moral Songs that we read : These emmets how little they are in our eyes ; We tread them to dust, and a troop of them dies. Without our regard or concern. But that is only the way in which enlightened... | |
 | 1896 - 716 pàgines
...the ground. An ant hill is a good study room, and it will require many hours to get the whole lesson. These emmets, how little they are in our eyes ; We tread them to dust, and a troop of them dies Without our regard or concern ; Yet as wise as we are, if sent to their... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 460 pàgines
...trust when their house is on fire. It is surely in Watts's "Divine and Moral Songs" that we read: — "These emmets how little they are in our eyes; We tread them to dust, and a troop of them dies, Without our regard or concern." But that is only the way in which enlightened... | |
 | Newton Marshall Hall - 1906 - 518 pàgines
...wear it there ; God will approve it in His sight, 'Tis His own work and His delight. — Isaac Watts. THE ANT, OR EMMET These emmets, how little they are in our eyes ! We tread them to dust, and a troop of them dies, Without our regard or concern; Yet, as wise as we are, if we went to... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - 1978 - 124 pàgines
...sluggard is it not a shame for thee To be outdone by pismires?..." with the following lines from Watts' "The Ant or Emmet": "These Emmets, how little they are in our eyes! We tread them to dust, and a troop of them dies, Without our regard or concern : Yet as wise as we are, if we went to... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - 2005 - 272 pàgines
...species notch] keep score of the Muse] poetry pain] careful labour 40 The Anf or Emmet ISAAC WATTS These emmets, how little they are in our eyes! We tread them to dust, and a troop of them dies Without our regard or concern: Yet, as wise as we are, if we went to... | |
 | Poetry - 1870 - 264 pàgines
...Improvement of the Mind, Essays, Psalma and Hymns, Divine Songs for Children. THE ANT.— INDUSTRY. THESE emmets, how little they are in our eyes ! We tread them to dust, and a troop of them dies Without our regard or concern: Yet as wise as we are, if sent to their... | |
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