The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own BoswellJ.R. Osgood, 1873 - 373 pages |
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... lights , being always in the cars , as he is always on the wing . " - Years elapsed . The lecturer visited the same place once more for the same purpose . Another social cup after the lecture , and a second meeting with the distin ...
... lights , being always in the cars , as he is always on the wing . " - Years elapsed . The lecturer visited the same place once more for the same purpose . Another social cup after the lecture , and a second meeting with the distin ...
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... one another To cheat the cunning tempter's art , And teach the race its duty , By keeping on its wicked heart Their eyes of light and beauty . A million sleepless lids , they say , Will be THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 17.
... one another To cheat the cunning tempter's art , And teach the race its duty , By keeping on its wicked heart Their eyes of light and beauty . A million sleepless lids , they say , Will be THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST - TABLE . 17.
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... light discovers , The traitor's smile , the murderer's frown , The lips of lying lovers , They try to shut their saddening eyes , And in the vain endeavour We see them twinkling in the skies , And so they wink forever . What do you ...
... light discovers , The traitor's smile , the murderer's frown , The lips of lying lovers , They try to shut their saddening eyes , And in the vain endeavour We see them twinkling in the skies , And so they wink forever . What do you ...
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... light , - When preachers tell us all they think , - And party leaders all they mean , When what we pay for , that we drink , From real grape and coffee - bean , ― When lawyers take what they would give , And doctors 26 THE AUTOCRAT OF ...
... light , - When preachers tell us all they think , - And party leaders all they mean , When what we pay for , that we drink , From real grape and coffee - bean , ― When lawyers take what they would give , And doctors 26 THE AUTOCRAT OF ...
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... light ; that is the province of wisdom . We get beautiful effects from wit , all the prismatic colors , but never the object as it is in fair daylight . A pun , which is a kind of wit , is a different and much shallower trick in ...
... light ; that is the province of wisdom . We get beautiful effects from wit , all the prismatic colors , but never the object as it is in fair daylight . A pun , which is a kind of wit , is a different and much shallower trick in ...
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Page 296 - He would build one shay to beat the taown 'n' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun'; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown: " Fur," said the Deacon, " 't 's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan' the strain; 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T' make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Page 297 - Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth 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 runs at large ; Take it.
Page 296 - So the Deacon inquired of the village folk Where he could find the strongest oak, That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke, That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills, The cross-bars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Page 298 - That there wasn'ta chance for one to start, For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whipple-tree neither less nor more, And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore.
Page 295 - Now in building of chaises, I tell you what, There is always somewhere a weakest spot, In hub, tire, felloe, in spring or thill, In panel, or crossbar, or floor, or sill, In screw, bolt, thoroughbrace, lurking still, Find it somewhere you must and will, Above or below, or within or without, And that 's the reason, beyond a doubt, A chaise breaks down, but doesn't wear out. But the Deacon swore (as Deacons do, With an "I dew vum...
Page 110 - The venturous bark that flings On the sweet 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 I And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell...
Page 298 - The parson was working his Sunday's text, Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the Moses was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n
Page 105 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving...
Page 54 - I grieve to say is sometimes heard even from female lips. The other is of more serious purport, and applies to such as contemplate a change of condition, matrimony, in fact. The woman who " calc'lates " is lost. Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Page 77 - And is there nothing yet unsaid, Before the change appears ? Remember, all their gifts have fled With those dissolving years ! " Why, yes ; for memory would recall My fond paternal joys ; I could not bear to leave them all : I '11 take my girl and boys...