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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... look unlike at first , as a front view of a face and its profile often do . THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 3. Mendelssohn , 1809 . Fashion is only the attempt to realize Art in liv- ing forms and social intercourse . THE ...
... look unlike at first , as a front view of a face and its profile often do . THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 3. Mendelssohn , 1809 . Fashion is only the attempt to realize Art in liv- ing forms and social intercourse . THE ...
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... look not always back ; Your wake is nothing , mind the coming track ; Leave what you ' ve done for what you have to do ; Don't be " consistent , " but be simply true . A RHYMED LESSON . 12. Abraham Lincoln , 1809 . Him so true and ...
... look not always back ; Your wake is nothing , mind the coming track ; Leave what you ' ve done for what you have to do ; Don't be " consistent , " but be simply true . A RHYMED LESSON . 12. Abraham Lincoln , 1809 . Him so true and ...
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... look upon a library as a kind of mental chem- ist's shop , filled with the crystals of all forms and hues which have come from the union of individual thought with local circumstances òr universal prin- ciples . THE PROFESSOR AT THE ...
... look upon a library as a kind of mental chem- ist's shop , filled with the crystals of all forms and hues which have come from the union of individual thought with local circumstances òr universal prin- ciples . THE PROFESSOR AT THE ...
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... look Behind the blissful scene . " THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 26. David Hume , 1711 . O , what a precious book the one would be That taught observers what they're not to see . A RHYMED LESSON . 27. S. F. B. Morse , 1791 . A ...
... look Behind the blissful scene . " THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 26. David Hume , 1711 . O , what a precious book the one would be That taught observers what they're not to see . A RHYMED LESSON . 27. S. F. B. Morse , 1791 . A ...
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... Look in upon thy wondrous frame , Eternal wisdom still the same ! - THE LIVING TEMPLE . 4. Lord Wolseley , 1833 . Then bursts the song from every leafy glade , The yielding season's bridal serenade ; Then flash the wings returning ...
... Look in upon thy wondrous frame , Eternal wisdom still the same ! - THE LIVING TEMPLE . 4. Lord Wolseley , 1833 . Then bursts the song from every leafy glade , The yielding season's bridal serenade ; Then flash the wings returning ...
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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.