Selections from the Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Arr. Under the Days of the Year, & Accompanied by Memoranda of Anniversaries of Noted Events & of the Birth Or Death of Famous Men & WomenHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1889 - 50 pages |
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... last , Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast , Till thou at length art free , Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea ! THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS . 209372 JANUARY 1-3 1. Maria Edgeworth , 1767 . Lord of.
... last , Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast , Till thou at length art free , Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea ! THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS . 209372 JANUARY 1-3 1. Maria Edgeworth , 1767 . Lord of.
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... Lord of all being ! throned afar , Thy glory flames from sun and star ; Centre and soul of every sphere , Yet to each loving heart how near ! A SUN - DAY HYMN . 2. Philip Freneau , 1752 . The wonderful exhibition of the Seasons is about ...
... Lord of all being ! throned afar , Thy glory flames from sun and star ; Centre and soul of every sphere , Yet to each loving heart how near ! A SUN - DAY HYMN . 2. Philip Freneau , 1752 . The wonderful exhibition of the Seasons is about ...
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... cake , the seat by the fire ; He had nothing to give , land , — ― the poor lord of the But he gave him a Welcome , hand ! - his heart in his - BANQUET TO THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS . 22. Bacon , 1561 ; Byron , 1788 . Genius JANUARY 18-21.
... cake , the seat by the fire ; He had nothing to give , land , — ― the poor lord of the But he gave him a Welcome , hand ! - his heart in his - BANQUET TO THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS . 22. Bacon , 1561 ; Byron , 1788 . Genius JANUARY 18-21.
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... lord of earth , the hero of the plough ! 4. W. H. Prescott , 1796 . THE PLOUGHMAN . All generous companies of artists , authors , phi- lanthropists , men of science , are , or ought to be , Societies of Mutual Admiration . A man of ...
... lord of earth , the hero of the plough ! 4. W. H. Prescott , 1796 . THE PLOUGHMAN . All generous companies of artists , authors , phi- lanthropists , men of science , are , or ought to be , Societies of Mutual Admiration . A man of ...
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... Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke assassinated , 1882 . One class of men must have their faith hammered in like a nail , by authority ; another class must have it worked in like a screw , by argument . THE PULPIT AND THE PEW . 7 ...
... Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke assassinated , 1882 . One class of men must have their faith hammered in like a nail , by authority ; another class must have it worked in like a screw , by argument . THE PULPIT AND THE PEW . 7 ...
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Page 46 - 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 43 - But little-minded people's thought move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve. An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not sensibly differ from a straight line. Even if it have the third vowel as its centre, it does not soon betray it.
Page 76 - The snowdrop, bearing on her patient breast The frozen trophy torn from winter's crest; The violet, gazing on the arch of blue Till her own iris wears its deepened hue; The spendthrift crocus, bursting through the mould Naked and shivering with his cup of gold.