 | 1897 - 404 pages
...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 - 420 pages
...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 share,...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... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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
...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 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...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 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...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 434 pages
...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
...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... | |
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... 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... 
