The Autocrat of the breakfast tableHoughton, Mifflin, 1858 - 373 pages |
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... face without the other half's knowing it . I have noticed - I went on to say -- the fol lowing circumstances connected with these sudden impressions . First , that the condition which seems to be the duplicate of a former one is often ...
... face without the other half's knowing it . I have noticed - I went on to say -- the fol lowing circumstances connected with these sudden impressions . First , that the condition which seems to be the duplicate of a former one is often ...
Page 102
... faces or verses ? Are you aware that you have a pleasant sense of patronizing him , when you condescend so far as to let him turn somersets , literal or literary , for your royal delight ? Now if a man can only be allowed to stand on a ...
... faces or verses ? Are you aware that you have a pleasant sense of patronizing him , when you condescend so far as to let him turn somersets , literal or literary , for your royal delight ? Now if a man can only be allowed to stand on a ...
Page 113
... face towards him , and each kept his posture as if changed to stone . Our Celtic Bridget , or Biddy , is not a foolish fat scullion to burst out crying for a senti ment . She is of the serviceable , red - handed , broad- and - high ...
... face towards him , and each kept his posture as if changed to stone . Our Celtic Bridget , or Biddy , is not a foolish fat scullion to burst out crying for a senti ment . She is of the serviceable , red - handed , broad- and - high ...
Page 129
... face or a laughing one . The next year stands for the coming time . Then shall the nature which had lain blanched and broken rise in its full stature and native hues in the sunshine . Then shall God's minstrels build their nests in the ...
... face or a laughing one . The next year stands for the coming time . Then shall the nature which had lain blanched and broken rise in its full stature and native hues in the sunshine . Then shall God's minstrels build their nests in the ...
Page 149
... faces of women that were fair to look upon , yet one could see that the icicles were forming round these women's hearts . I knew what freezing image lay on the white breasts beneath the laces ! A very simple intellectual mechanism ...
... faces of women that were fair to look upon , yet one could see that the icicles were forming round these women's hearts . I knew what freezing image lay on the white breasts beneath the laces ! A very simple intellectual mechanism ...
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Page 289 - 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 290 - 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 crossbars 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 104 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new...
Page 292 - What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You...
Page 289 - Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. It was on the terrible earthquake-day That the Deacon finished the one-hoss shay.
Page 99 - 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 104 - THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.* This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — 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.
Page 305 - I care not much for gold or land; Give me a mortgage here and there — Some good bank-stock — some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend.
Page 194 - The smooth, soft air with pulse-like waves Flows murmuring through its hidden caves, Whose streams of brightening purple rush, Fired with a new and livelier blush, While all their burden of decay The ebbing current steals away, And red with Nature's flame they start From the warm fountains of the heart.
Page 104 - And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell...