 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 500 pages
...the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables ser"e my turn, But all must be of bulil ? Give grasping pomp its double share, — I ask but...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content I ESTIVATION AN UNPUBLISHED POEM, BY MY LATE LATIN TUTOR IN candent ire the solar splendor flames ;... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 382 pages
...not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl? Give grasping pomp its double share, — I ask bnt one recumbent chair. \ Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch, If Heaven... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1893 - 300 pages
...not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double share,...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content I MY LAST WALK AVITH THE SCHOOLMISTRESS. (A Parenthesis.) I can't say just how many walks she and I... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1894 - 232 pages
...mark — 1. An unfinished construction ; as, — But if we fail — 2. A witty transition ; as, — Give grasping pomp its double share, — I ask but one recumbent chair. 3. Hesitation; as, — Yes, there are three — no — four of them. 4. An abrupt change of style ;... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1895 - 390 pages
...not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double share,...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! AESTIVATION AN UNPUBLISHED POEM, BY MY LATE LATIN TUTOR Yonr talking Latin — said I — reminds... | |
 | 1895 - 416 pages
...not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double share, — I ask but one recumbent chair. HOLMES. 231 To find the mind's construction in the face. MACBETH i. 4. ASK the married man, who has... | |
 | 1896 - 532 pages
...not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double share,...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content! JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 805 THE PRESENT CRISIS WHEN a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1896 - 330 pages
...not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl? Give grasping pomp its double share,...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content! ESTIVATION AN UNPUBLISHED POEM, BY MY LATE LATIN TUTOR IN candent ire the solar splendor flames ; The... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 238 pages
...not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double share,...recumbent chair. Thus humble let me live and die, Not long for Midas' golden touch ; If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1896 - 398 pages
...not learn Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double share, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble lot me live and die, Nor long for Midas' goldan touch ; If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall... | |
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... value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride ; — One Stradivarius, I confess, Two Meerschaums, I would fain possess. Wealth's wasteful tricks I will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables serve... 
