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. The Autocrat of the breakfast table - Page 305by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 9822 pages
...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...Gubernator's chair. Jewels are baubles ; 'tis a sin To care for such unfruitful things ; — One good-sized diamond in a pin, — Some, not so large, in... | |
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...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...perhaps, be Plenipo, — But only near St. James; I 'm very sure I should not care To fill our Gubernator's chair. Jewels are baubles; 'tis a sin To... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - 1898 - 265 pages
...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." He did not imperil his comfort by any premature devotion to abolition, or other unfashionable causes... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899
...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...Gubernator's chair. Jewels are baubles ; 'tis a sin To care for such unfruitful things ; — One good-sized diamond in a pin, — Some, not so large, in... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1910
...hand Or trifling railroad share;— I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. 4 Honors are silly toys, I know, And titles are but...I should not care To fill our Gubernator's chair. ..5 Jewels are baubles 'tis a sin To care for such unfruitful things;— One good-sized diamond in... | |
 | 1910
...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...I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I know, And tides are but empty names; I would, perhaps, be Plenipo, — But only near St. James; I'm very sure... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker - 1910 - 477 pages
...or land ; — Give me a mortgage here and there, — 16 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. One good-sized diamond in a pin, — Some, not so large, in rings, — A ruby, and a pearl, or so,... | |
 | Constance Fuller Wheeler Johnson, Burges Johnson - 1910 - 161 pages
...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. " Contentment. " Oliver Wendell Holmes. JANUARY TWENTY-FIRST Werther had a love for Charlotte Such... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1910
...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. 4 Honors are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names ; — I would, perhaps, be Plenipo,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1911 - 126 pages
...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. Jewels are baubles ; 'tis a sin To care for such unfruitful things ; — One good-sized diamond in... | |
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