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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... o'er the spectral snow ; Here , while the night - wind wreaked its frantic will On the loose ocean and the rock - bound hill , Rent the cracked topsail from its quivering yard , And rived the oak a thousand storms had scarred , Fenced ...
... o'er the spectral snow ; Here , while the night - wind wreaked its frantic will On the loose ocean and the rock - bound hill , Rent the cracked topsail from its quivering yard , And rived the oak a thousand storms had scarred , Fenced ...
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... o'er its lucid plain . 17. William Gilmore Simms , 1806 . SPRING . I find that there is a very prevalent opinion among the dwellers on the shores of Sir Isaac New- ton's Ocean of Truth , that salt fish , which have been taken from it a ...
... o'er its lucid plain . 17. William Gilmore Simms , 1806 . SPRING . I find that there is a very prevalent opinion among the dwellers on the shores of Sir Isaac New- ton's Ocean of Truth , that salt fish , which have been taken from it a ...
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... 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 flowering month of the orchard . SPRING . As the warmth ...
... 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 flowering month of the orchard . SPRING . As the warmth ...
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... o'er his memory like a forest's flame ; Each treasured insult , each remembered wrong , Rolled through his heart and kindled into song ; His taper faded ; and the morning gales Swept through the world the war - song of Mar- seilles ! 11 ...
... o'er his memory like a forest's flame ; Each treasured insult , each remembered wrong , Rolled through his heart and kindled into song ; His taper faded ; and the morning gales Swept through the world the war - song of Mar- seilles ! 11 ...
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... o'er Achaia's plain ! The proud heroic , with its pulse - like beat , Rings like the cymbals clashing as they meet . 22. Richard Wagner , 1813 . POETRY . Language is a solemn thing , it grows out of life , - out of its agonies and ...
... o'er Achaia's plain ! The proud heroic , with its pulse - like beat , Rings like the cymbals clashing as they meet . 22. Richard Wagner , 1813 . POETRY . Language is a solemn thing , it grows out of life , - out of its agonies and ...
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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.