The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own BoswellHoughton, Osgood and Company, 1879 - 373 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα v
... better or worse than the early windfalls . So began this series of papers , which nat urally brings those earlier attempts to my own notice and that of some few friends who were idle enough to read them at the time of their.
... better or worse than the early windfalls . So began this series of papers , which nat urally brings those earlier attempts to my own notice and that of some few friends who were idle enough to read them at the time of their.
Σελίδα vii
... better than these things and there was not a little that was much worse . A young fellow of two or three and twenty has as good a right to spoil a magazine - full of essays in learning how to write , as an oculist like Wenzel had to ...
... better than these things and there was not a little that was much worse . A young fellow of two or three and twenty has as good a right to spoil a magazine - full of essays in learning how to write , as an oculist like Wenzel had to ...
Σελίδα 4
... better than that which unites the Societies of Mutual Admiration . And what would literature or art be without such associa- tions ? Who can tell what we owe to the Mutual Admiration Society of which Shakspeare , and Ben Jonson , and ...
... better than that which unites the Societies of Mutual Admiration . And what would literature or art be without such associa- tions ? Who can tell what we owe to the Mutual Admiration Society of which Shakspeare , and Ben Jonson , and ...
Σελίδα 5
... better to lose a pint of blood from your veins than to have a nerve tapped Nobody measures your nervous force as it runs away , nor bandages your brain and marrow after the opera- tion . There are men of esprit who are excessively ex ...
... better to lose a pint of blood from your veins than to have a nerve tapped Nobody measures your nervous force as it runs away , nor bandages your brain and marrow after the opera- tion . There are men of esprit who are excessively ex ...
Σελίδα 5
... better , though it grind a thousand bushels of them ! I have an immense respect for a man of talents plus " the mathematics . " But the calculating power alone should seem to be the least human of qualities , and to have the smallest ...
... better , though it grind a thousand bushels of them ! I have an immense respect for a man of talents plus " the mathematics . " But the calculating power alone should seem to be the least human of qualities , and to have the smallest ...
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Σελίδα 247 - 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 248 - Close by the meet'n'house on the hill. First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill, And the parson was sitting upon a rock, At half past nine by the meet'n'house clock, Just the hour of the earthquake shock!
Σελίδα 82 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn 1 From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn...
Σελίδα 245 - Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot,— In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace,— lurking 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...
Σελίδα 264 - Perhaps, for just a single spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures I should like to own Titians and Raphaels three or four— I love so much their style and tone — One Turner...
Σελίδα 247 - But nothing local as one may say. There couldn't be, — for the Deacon's art Had made it so like in every part 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 whipple-tree neither less nor more, And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore. And spring and axle and hub encore.
Σελίδα 265 - Which others often show for pride, /value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride; — One Stradivarius, I confess, Two Meerschaums, I would fain possess. Wealth's wasteful tricks I will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl '! Give grasping pomp its double share, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas...
Σελίδα 83 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Σελίδα 247 - 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 170 - The smooth, soft air with pulse-like waves Flows murmuring through its hidden caves, Whose streams of brightening purple rush, Fired with a new and livelier blush, While all their burden of decay The ebbing current steals away, And red with Nature's flame they start From the warm fountains of the heart.