 Hahnsum kerridge" they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came; Running as usual; much, the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then come fifty, and fifty-five. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without...  Songs in Many Keys - Page 170by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pages
...away, Children and grand-children — where were they ? But there stood the stout old oue-hoss-shay As fresh as on Lisbon-earthquake-day ! EIGHTEEN HUNDRED...year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...hundred and twenty came ; — Ruinmg as usual ; much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, Ana tnen come fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. Little of all we value...' Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that... | |
 | 1859 - 418 pages
...Eighteen hundred increased by ten ; — " Hahnsum kerridge " thcv called it then. Eighteen hundred ami twenty came ; — Running as usual ; much the same....year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that... | |
 | 1861 - 304 pages
...and twenty eame ;— Running as usual; mueh the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then eame fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. Little of all we value here...hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In faet, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 446 pages
...usual — much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive ; And then came fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. 8. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its...year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a m5ral that... | |
 | 1861 - 300 pages
...Running as usual ; mueh the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then eame fifty, and FIFTY -FIVE. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its...hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer. In faet, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1864 - 434 pages
...twenty came ; — Running as usual — much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive ; And then came fifty — and FIFTY-FIVE. Little of all we value here...year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1864 - 450 pages
...Running as usual—much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive; And then came fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. 8 Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its...year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 726 pages
...distinguished predecessor, whom we all value for his practical wisdom as much as his attic wit, has told us " Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its...hundredth year, Without both feeling and looking queer; " an axiom which some antiquaries in England attempt to carry still further, by asserting that no man... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 508 pages
...as usual, — much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then come fifty and FIFTY-FIVE. 8. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its...year Without both feeling and looking queer. In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. (This is a moral that... | |
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