 ... 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...  The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table - Σελίδα 269των Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 343 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1897 - 404 σελίδες
...wiH 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,...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content! The Opening of the Piano. In the little southern parlor of the house you may have seen With the gambrel-roof,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 σελίδες
...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,...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! MY LAST WALK WITH THE SCHOOLMISTRESS. (A Parenthesis.) I can't say just how many walks she and I... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 σελίδες
...would not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; Shall not carved tables serve my turn 1 But all must be of buhl. Give grasping pomp its double share...shall not miss them much — Too grateful for the blessings lent, Of simple tastes and mind content. El I> ITORI .A. L " Scatter diligently in susceptible... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 328 σελίδες
...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,...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content I PAKSON TUKELL'S LEGACY: OB, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIB. A MATHEMATICAL STORY. FACTS respecting... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863 - 672 σελίδες
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 | James Thomas Fields - 1864 - 458 σελίδες
...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 b've and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch ; If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1867 - 606 σελίδες
...not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double care, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! ' Having had our laugh at Yankee humour, let us glance at what it tells us seriously. In the first... | |
 | 1867 - 530 σελίδες
...buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double care, — I ask but one recumbent chair. If Heaven more gen'rous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much, — Too grateful...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content I' ORIGIN OF THE PRINTER'S DEVIL. FRANCIS BROWNE. WHEN Faustus, at first, did his printing begin, A... | |
 | 1869 - 310 σελίδες
...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,...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! 74 DE SAUTY. AN ELECTRO-CHEMICAL ECLOGUE. Professor. Blue-Nose. PROFESSOR. r~pELL me, O Provincial... | |
 | 1869 - 654 σελίδες
...not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl? Give grasping pomp its double care, — 1 ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me live...blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content!' Having had our laugh at Yankee humour, let us glance at what it tells us seriously. In the first place... | |
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