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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... Divine armory . THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 16. Edmund Spenser died , 1599 . Poets , like painters , their machinery claim , And verse bestows the varnish and the frame ; Our grating English , whose Teutonic jar Shakes the ...
... Divine armory . THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 16. Edmund Spenser died , 1599 . Poets , like painters , their machinery claim , And verse bestows the varnish and the frame ; Our grating English , whose Teutonic jar Shakes the ...
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... divine forces underlie the growth of both , but leaf and flower and fruit must follow the law of race , of soil , of climate . THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE 5. James Madison , 1751 . Every grace that plastic language knows The ...
... divine forces underlie the growth of both , but leaf and flower and fruit must follow the law of race , of soil , of climate . THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE 5. James Madison , 1751 . Every grace that plastic language knows The ...
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... Divine that stopped to share Our sharpest pang , our bitterest tear , On Thee we cast each earth - born care , We smile a pain while Thou art near ! Though long the weary way we tread , And sorrow crown each lingering year , No path we ...
... Divine that stopped to share Our sharpest pang , our bitterest tear , On Thee we cast each earth - born care , We smile a pain while Thou art near ! Though long the weary way we tread , And sorrow crown each lingering year , No path we ...
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... divine secondary color de- rived from ourselves . THE AUTOCRAT . 8. Alessandro Manzoni , 1785 . - Man has his will , but woman has her way ! While man's dull spirit toils in smoke and fire , Woman's swift instinct threads the electric ...
... divine secondary color de- rived from ourselves . THE AUTOCRAT . 8. Alessandro Manzoni , 1785 . - Man has his will , but woman has her way ! While man's dull spirit toils in smoke and fire , Woman's swift instinct threads the electric ...
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... a seedling tulip into what we may call high - caste colors , ten thousand dingy flowers , then one with the divine streak . THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 16. James Walker , 1794 . One - story intellects AUGUST 12-15.
... a seedling tulip into what we may call high - caste colors , ten thousand dingy flowers , then one with the divine streak . THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 16. James Walker , 1794 . One - story intellects AUGUST 12-15.
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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.