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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... - 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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... Poor , dear Charles Lamb , ― ― TO MY READERS . we can hardly with- hold the pitying epithet , since the rough Scotchman brought up against him , as one of his own kale - pots might have shivered a quaint and precious amphora , – poor ...
... Poor , dear Charles Lamb , ― ― TO MY READERS . we can hardly with- hold the pitying epithet , since the rough Scotchman brought up against him , as one of his own kale - pots might have shivered a quaint and precious amphora , – poor ...
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... poor creature that does not often repeat himself . Imagine the author of the excel- lent piece of advice , " Know thyself , " never allud- ing to that sentiment again during the course of a protracted existence ! Why , the truths a man ...
... poor creature that does not often repeat himself . Imagine the author of the excel- lent piece of advice , " Know thyself , " never allud- ing to that sentiment again during the course of a protracted existence ! Why , the truths a man ...
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... poor wanderer , dropping meekly down , Clad in his remnant of autumnal brown ; The oriole , drifting like a flake of fire Rent by a whirlwind from a blazing spire . SPRING . 18. John Wilson , 1785 . The wider the intellect , the larger ...
... poor wanderer , dropping meekly down , Clad in his remnant of autumnal brown ; The oriole , drifting like a flake of fire Rent by a whirlwind from a blazing spire . SPRING . 18. John Wilson , 1785 . The wider the intellect , the larger ...
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... poor raiment drest . We see no halo round his brow Till love its own recalls , And like a leaf that quits the bough , The mortal vesture falls . A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE . 2. Marie Antoinette , 1755 . To guard is better than to heal , The ...
... poor raiment drest . We see no halo round his brow Till love its own recalls , And like a leaf that quits the bough , The mortal vesture falls . A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE . 2. Marie Antoinette , 1755 . To guard is better than to heal , 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.