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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... youth , but God's servant from that day forward . I have for- gotten the famous bears , and all else . THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 27. Vera Cruz taken by Scott , 1847 . Sin has many tools , but a lie is the handle which fits ...
... youth , but God's servant from that day forward . I have for- gotten the famous bears , and all else . THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 27. Vera Cruz taken by Scott , 1847 . Sin has many tools , but a lie is the handle which fits ...
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... youth in each exquisite strain ! FOR THE MOORE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION . 29. Patrick Henry , 1736 . Every library should try to be complete on some- thing , if it were only on the history of pin - heads . THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST ...
... youth in each exquisite strain ! FOR THE MOORE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION . 29. Patrick Henry , 1736 . Every library should try to be complete on some- thing , if it were only on the history of pin - heads . THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST ...
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... YOUTH . 26. Philip Doddridge , 1702 . We find her at her stately door , and in her ancient chair , Dressed in the robes of red and green she always loved to wear . Her eye has all its radiant youth , her cheek its morning flame ; We ...
... YOUTH . 26. Philip Doddridge , 1702 . We find her at her stately door , and in her ancient chair , Dressed in the robes of red and green she always loved to wear . Her eye has all its radiant youth , her cheek its morning flame ; We ...
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... youth , to manhood's prime ; Think of the calm he brings , the wealth he leaves us , The hoarded spoils , the legacies of time ! THE IRON GATE . 28. Washington Irving died , 1859 . How prosaic the great city of New York would look but ...
... youth , to manhood's prime ; Think of the calm he brings , the wealth he leaves us , The hoarded spoils , the legacies of time ! THE IRON GATE . 28. Washington Irving died , 1859 . How prosaic the great city of New York would look but ...
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... Youth longs and manhood strives , but age remembers , Sits by the raked - up ashes of the past , Spreads its thin hands above the whitening embers That warm its creeping life - blood till the last . THE IRON GATE . 8. Lady Anne Barnard ...
... Youth longs and manhood strives , but age remembers , Sits by the raked - up ashes of the past , Spreads its thin hands above the whitening embers That warm its creeping life - blood till the last . THE IRON GATE . 8. Lady Anne Barnard ...
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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.