The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table: Every Man His Own BoswellPhillips, Sampson and Company, 1859 - 373 σελίδες |
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell Oliver Wendell Holmes Πλήρης προβολή - 1864 |
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Σελίδα 108 - And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed,— Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past
Σελίδα 109 - on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll 1 Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new
Σελίδα 295 - they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came ;— Running as usual ; much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then come fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth,
Σελίδα 296 - And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore, And spring and axle and hub encore. And yet, as a whole, it is past a doubt In another hour it will be worn out ! First of November, 'Fifty-five 1 This morning the parson takes a drive. Now, small boys, get out
Σελίδα 294 - still Find it somewhere you must and will,— Above or below, or within or without,— And that's the reason, beyond a doubt, A chaise breaks down, but doesn't wear out. But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an " I dew vum," or an
Σελίδα 294 - A LOGICAL STORY. HAVE you heard of the wonderful one-hoss-shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day. And then, of a sudden, it ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay,
Σελίδα 140 - borrow this,—he speaks as if it were old. But then he applied it so neatly !— " He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged." Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian, in one of
Σελίδα 295 - As fresh as on Lisbon-earthquake-day ! EIGHTEEN HUNDRED ;—it came and found The Deacon's Masterpiece strong and sound. Eighteen hundred increased by ten ;— " Hahusum kerridge " they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came ;— Running as usual ; much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then
Σελίδα 108 - Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thce, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap forlorn
Σελίδα 294 - Do ! I tell you, I rather guess She was a wonder, and nothing less ! Colts grew horses, beards turned gray, Deacon and deaconess dropped away, Children and grand-children—where were they ? But there stood the stout old