 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...  The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table - Σελίδα 313των Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 373 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1869 - 654 σελίδες
...- Man wants but little here below.' ' 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...subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen! I always thought cold victual nice, — My choice would be vanilla-ice. I care not much for gold or land;... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 σελίδες
...tl Man wants but little here below." 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...subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen ! I always thought cold victual nice j — My choice would be vanilla-ice. I care not much for gold or... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 σελίδες
...CONTENTMENT. " Man wants but little here below." 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...subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen ! I always thought cold victuals nice ; — My choice would be vanilla-ice. I care not much for gold or... | |
 | 1871 - 402 σελίδες
...HOLMES. " Man wants but litUe here below." 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...subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen ! I always thought cold victual nice ; — My choice would be vanilla-ice. I care not much for gold or... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 σελίδες
...LITTLE I ask ; my wants are few ; I only wish a hut of stone, (A very plain brown stone will do,) That 1 - always thought cold victual nice ; — My choice would be vanilla-ice. I care not much for gold or... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 248 σελίδες
...CONTENTMENT. " Man wants but little here below." P ITTLE I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone (A very plain brown stone will do), That I may call...subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen ! I always thought cold victual nice, — My choice would be vanilla-ice. I care not much for gold or land;... | |
 | 1872 - 900 σελίδες
...wants are few ; I only wish a hut of stone, (A very plain brown stone will do,) That I may call niy e stout old one-lioss shay As fresh as on Lisbou-earthquake-day...Eighteen hundred increased by ten ; — " Hahnsum always thought cold victual nice ; — My choice would be vanilla-ice. I care not much for gold or... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - 1899 - 534 σελίδες
...HOLMES. ' Man wants but little here below." 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...that fronts the sun. Plain food is quite enough for mo; Three courses are as good as ten ; If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three — Amen... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 σελίδες
...CONTENTMENT. "Man wants but little here below." LITTLE I ask ; my wants are few ; I only wish a hut of stone, Beneath the keen full moon ? Who bade the sun Clothe...Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread g son. Plain food is quite enough for me ; Three courses are as good as ten ; — If nature can subsist... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 σελίδες
...Man wants but littlu here below." LITTLE I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone, (A rery plain brown stone will do,) That I may call my own...subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen ! I always thought cold victual nice ; — My choice would be vanilla ice. I care not much for gold or... | |
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