 Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk. I would not have the horse I drive So fast that folks must stop and stare ; An easy gait — two, forty-five — Suits me ; I do not care; — Perhaps, for just a single spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of...  Songs in Many Keys - Page 176by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1897 - 404 pages
...for just a single spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like to own Titans and Raphaels three or four, — I love so much their...golden dirt, — The sunshine painted with a squirt.) iOf books but few, — som,e fifty score For daily use, and bound for wear; The rest upon an upper... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 pages
...less would do no hurt. Of pictures I should like to own Titans and Raphaels three or four — Hove so much their style and tone — One Turner and no...few — some fifty score, For daily use, and bound to wear ; The rest upon an upper floor; Some little luxury there Of red morocco's gilded gleam, And... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...— Perhaps, for just a single spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Raphaels three or four, — I love...morocco's gilded gleam, And vellum rich as country cream. /value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride ; — One Stradivarius, I confess, Two... | |
 | 1869 - 310 pages
...single spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Kaphaels three or four, I love so much their style and tone,...and bound for wear ; The rest upon an upper floor ; Busts, cameos, gems, — such things as these, Which others often show for pride, I value for their... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1870 - 416 pages
...— Perhaps, for just a single spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Raphaels three or four,— I love...their style and tone,— One Turner, and no more, (A landscape,—foreground golden dirt, — The sunshine painted with a squirt.) Of books but few,—some... | |
 | 1871 - 320 pages
...— Perhaps, for just a single spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Raphaels three or four, — I love...For daily use, and bound for wear ; The rest upon an npper floor ; — Busts, cameos, gems, — such things as these, Which others often show for pride,... | |
 | 1872 - 900 pages
...Perhaps, for just a siiu¡le spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like ike in trembling bope repose,) The bosom of his Father...God. THOMAS CRAY. 220 POEMS OF SORROW AND ADVERSITY. ; — 508 569 Busts, cameos, gems, — such things as these, Which others often show for pride, I value... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 376 pages
...— Perhaps, for j ust a tingle spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Raphaels three or four,— I love...little luxury there Of red morocco's gilded gleam, Aud vellum rich as country cream. Busts, cameos, gems, — such things as thew. Which others often... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...just a single spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like to own Titian» '11 home again, full laden, to thy door ; The streams ; — 508 f POEMS OF SENTIMENT AND REFLECTION. 509 Busts, cameos, gems, — such things as these, Which... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 490 pages
...Autocrat of the Breakfast Table puts into a homely stanza his collection, be it real or ideal : — Of books but few — some fifty score For daily use,...morocco's gilded gleam, And vellum rich as country cream. ' C'EST A VEC LES MORTS QU'IL FA UT VIVRE.' 223 The elder Disraeli has been described by his son as... | |
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