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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... summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted , where the siren sings , And coral reefs lie bare , Where the cold sea - maids rise to sun their streaming hair . Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl : Wrecked is the ship of pearl ...
... summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted , where the siren sings , And coral reefs lie bare , Where the cold sea - maids rise to sun their streaming hair . Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl : Wrecked is the ship of pearl ...
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... summer to us as fast as he can . But the astro- nomical date corresponds with the popular belief as well as the meteorological record . " As the day lengthens , the cold strengthens . " THE SEASONS . 11. Alexander Hamilton , 1757 ...
... summer to us as fast as he can . But the astro- nomical date corresponds with the popular belief as well as the meteorological record . " As the day lengthens , the cold strengthens . " THE SEASONS . 11. Alexander Hamilton , 1757 ...
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... summer drains The life - blood drawn from English veins , Still bearing whereso'er it flows The love that with its fountain rose . Unchanged by space , unwronged by time , From age to age , from clime to clime ! TO AN ENGLISH FRIEND ...
... summer drains The life - blood drawn from English veins , Still bearing whereso'er it flows The love that with its fountain rose . Unchanged by space , unwronged by time , From age to age , from clime to clime ! TO AN ENGLISH FRIEND ...
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... Summer calls Through the deep arches of her forest halls . SPRING . 5. Counts Egmont and Horn beheaded , 1568 . There is a perfect consciousness in every form of wit , using that term in its general sense , - that its essence consists ...
... Summer calls Through the deep arches of her forest halls . SPRING . 5. Counts Egmont and Horn beheaded , 1568 . There is a perfect consciousness in every form of wit , using that term in its general sense , - that its essence consists ...
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... summer has begun , hardly till then ; and they mark pretty nearly the true astronomical beginning of the season . 19. Confucius , 551 B. C. Land of wonders , fair Cathay , THE SEASONS . Who long hast shunned the staring day , Hid in ...
... summer has begun , hardly till then ; and they mark pretty nearly the true astronomical beginning of the season . 19. Confucius , 551 B. C. Land of wonders , fair Cathay , THE SEASONS . Who long hast shunned the staring day , Hid in ...
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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.
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