The Autocrat of the breakfast tableHoughton, Mifflin, 1858 - 373 pages |
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... stand Whose window hath the broadest light , - When preachers tell us all they think , And party leaders all they mean , — When what we pay for , that we drink , From real grape and coffee - bean , - When lawyers take what they would ...
... stand Whose window hath the broadest light , - When preachers tell us all they think , And party leaders all they mean , — When what we pay for , that we drink , From real grape and coffee - bean , - When lawyers take what they would ...
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... stands with his shaft on the string , He stoops from . his toil to the garland we bring . What pictures yet slumber unborn in his loom Till their warriors shall breathe and their beauties shall bloom , While the tapestry lengthens the ...
... stands with his shaft on the string , He stoops from . his toil to the garland we bring . What pictures yet slumber unborn in his loom Till their warriors shall breathe and their beauties shall bloom , While the tapestry lengthens the ...
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... stand by the rudder that governs the bark , Nor ask how we look from the shore ! -Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked . Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers , if anything is thrust among ...
... stand by the rudder that governs the bark , Nor ask how we look from the shore ! -Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked . Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers , if anything is thrust among ...
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... stands for speech . " Tis like the harper's prelude on the strings , The prima donna's courtesy ere she sings ; — Prologues in metre are to other pros As worsted stockings are to engine - hose . " The world's a stage , " - as Shakspeare ...
... stands for speech . " Tis like the harper's prelude on the strings , The prima donna's courtesy ere she sings ; — Prologues in metre are to other pros As worsted stockings are to engine - hose . " The world's a stage , " - as Shakspeare ...
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... standing . The following is an uncorrected French exercise , written by this young gentleman . His mother thinks it very creditable to his abilities ; though , being unacquainted with the French lan- guage , her judgment cannot be ...
... standing . The following is an uncorrected French exercise , written by this young gentleman . His mother thinks it very creditable to his abilities ; though , being unacquainted with the French lan- guage , her judgment cannot be ...
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Page 289 - 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...
Page 290 - That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke,^ That was for spokes and floor and sills; 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...
Page 104 - 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...
Page 292 - What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You...
Page 289 - Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. It was on the terrible earthquake-day That the Deacon finished the one-hoss shay.
Page 99 - 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.
Page 104 - THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.* 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.
Page 305 - I care not much for gold or land; Give me a mortgage here and there — Some good bank-stock — some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend.
Page 194 - 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.
Page 104 - And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell...