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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... golden days " ; in the authors of the Elizabethan time ; in the poets of the first part of this century following that dreary period , suffering alike from the silence of Cowper and the song of Hayley . THE INEVITABLE TRIAL . 23 ...
... golden days " ; in the authors of the Elizabethan time ; in the poets of the first part of this century following that dreary period , suffering alike from the silence of Cowper and the song of Hayley . THE INEVITABLE TRIAL . 23 ...
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... golden time ! -- A RHYMED LESSON . 16. Caroline Herschel , 1750 . Did you ever see that electrical experiment which consists in passing a flash through letters of gold leaf in a darkened room , whereupon some name or legend springs out ...
... golden time ! -- A RHYMED LESSON . 16. Caroline Herschel , 1750 . Did you ever see that electrical experiment which consists in passing a flash through letters of gold leaf in a darkened room , whereupon some name or legend springs out ...
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... golden , — drift , or sky , or sun . 7. William Wordsworth , 1770 . Come , take the book we love so well , And let us read and dream We see whate'er its pages tell , And sail an English stream . And daisies strew the banks along , And ...
... golden , — drift , or sky , or sun . 7. William Wordsworth , 1770 . Come , take the book we love so well , And let us read and dream We see whate'er its pages tell , And sail an English stream . And daisies strew the banks along , And ...
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... golden truths that while the world goes by With all its empty pageant , blazoned high — ― Around the Master's name forever shine ! So shines thy name illumined in the sky , Such joys , such triumphs , such remembrance thine ! TO ...
... golden truths that while the world goes by With all its empty pageant , blazoned high — ― Around the Master's name forever shine ! So shines thy name illumined in the sky , Such joys , such triumphs , such remembrance thine ! TO ...
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... golden hair , Chased to the margin of receding floods O'er the soft meadows starred with opening buds , In tears and blushes sighs herself away , And hides her cheek beneath the flowers of May . MAY 1. Joseph Addison , 1672 . The ...
... golden hair , Chased to the margin of receding floods O'er the soft meadows starred with opening buds , In tears and blushes sighs herself away , And hides her cheek beneath the flowers of May . MAY 1. Joseph Addison , 1672 . The ...
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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.