The Autocrat of the Breakfast-tableTicknor and Fields, 1868 - 373 σελίδες |
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... morning , 1 should read you a copy of verses , with critical remarks by the author ? Any of the company can retire that like . ALBUM VERSES . When Eve had led her lord away , And Cain had killed his brother , The stars and flowers , the ...
... morning , 1 should read you a copy of verses , with critical remarks by the author ? Any of the company can retire that like . ALBUM VERSES . When Eve had led her lord away , And Cain had killed his brother , The stars and flowers , the ...
Σελίδα 18
... morning . On hill and prairie , field and lawn , Their dewy eyes upturning , The flowers stil watch from reddening dawn Till western skies are burning . Alas ! each hour of daylight tells A tale of shame so crushing , That some turn ...
... morning . On hill and prairie , field and lawn , Their dewy eyes upturning , The flowers stil watch from reddening dawn Till western skies are burning . Alas ! each hour of daylight tells A tale of shame so crushing , That some turn ...
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... morning truth warning . Nine tenths of the " Juvenile Poems " written spring out of the above musical and suggestive co- incidences . " Yes ? " said our landlady's daughter . I did not address the following remark to her , and I trust ...
... morning truth warning . Nine tenths of the " Juvenile Poems " written spring out of the above musical and suggestive co- incidences . " Yes ? " said our landlady's daughter . I did not address the following remark to her , and I trust ...
Σελίδα 27
... to like the verses , and 1 promised them to read others occasionally , if they had a mind to hear them . Of course they would not expect it every morning . Neither must the reader THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 27.
... to like the verses , and 1 promised them to read others occasionally , if they had a mind to hear them . Of course they would not expect it every morning . Neither must the reader THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 27.
Σελίδα 28
Oliver Wendell Holmes. not expect it every morning . Neither must the reader suppose that all these things I have reported were said at any one breakfast - time . I have not taken the trouble to date them , as Raspail , père , used to ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes. not expect it every morning . Neither must the reader suppose that all these things I have reported were said at any one breakfast - time . I have not taken the trouble to date them , as Raspail , père , used to ...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell Oliver Wendell Holmes Πλήρης προβολή - 1879 |
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Σελίδα 105 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving! To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift nor lie at anchor.
Σελίδα 313 - Little I ask ; my wants are few ; I only wish a hut of stone, (A very plain brown stone will do,) That I may call my own ; — And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. Plain food is quite enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten ; — If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen! I always thought cold victual nice; — My choice would be vanilla-ice. I...
Σελίδα 297 - 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, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Σελίδα 295 - Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown.
Σελίδα 298 - The parson was working his Sunday's text, Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the -Moses - was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill.
Σελίδα 296 - He sent for lancewood to make the thills; The crossbars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Σελίδα 110 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
Σελίδα 297 - EIGHTEEN HUNDRED;— it came and found The Deacon's masterpiece strong and sound. Eighteen hundred increased by ten; — "Hahnsum kerridge" 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.
Σελίδα 297 - That there wasn'ta chance for one to start. For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills, And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whippletree neither less nor more, And the back cross-bar 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!
Σελίδα 353 - The wild flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them ; Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them...