 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 ;...  The Ashlar - Page 137edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
 | 1897 - 404 pages
...tricks I 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...shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content! The Opening of the Piano. In the little southern parlor... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pages
...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...shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! MY LAST WALK WITH THE SCHOOLMISTRESS. (A Parenthesis.)... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...will not learn, Nor ape th( glittering upstart fool ;— Siia!' not carved tables serve my turn, Rut all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double...Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them mucA,— Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content I MY LAST WALE WITH THE... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 368 pages
...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...shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! PARSON TURELL'S LEGACY: OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIR.... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863 - 672 pages
...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.* Marivauz, we are told, " avait les gouts recherche's que Ton conceit de la part d'une organisation... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1864 - 458 pages
...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...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 pages
...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...shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! ' Having had our laugh at Yankee humour, let us glance... | |
 | 1867 - 530 pages
...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 for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content I' ORIGIN OF THE PRINTER'S DEVIL. FRANCIS BROWNE. WHEN... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 434 pages
...I will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart, fool ; — Sual! 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 bumble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch, If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I... | |
 | 1869 - 310 pages
...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...shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! 74 DE SAUTY. AN ELECTRO-CHEMICAL ECLOGUE. Professor.... | |
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