 Which others often show for pride, / 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 ;...  Wisconsin Journal of Education - Стр. 1811897Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - Страниц: 430
...One Stradivarius, I confess, Two Meerschaums, I would fain possess. Wealth's wasteful tricks I will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; —...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! MY LAST WALK WITH THE SCHOOLMISTRESS. (A Parenthesis.) I can't say just how many walks she and I... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - Страниц: 420
...will not learn, Nor ape th( glittering upstart fool ;— Siia!' not carved tables serve my turn, Rut all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double...Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them mucA,— Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content I MY LAST WALE WITH THE... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - Страниц: 642
...One Tradivarins, I confess ; Two Meerschaums I would fain possess. Wealth's wasteful tricks I would not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; Shall not carved tables serve my turn 1 But all must be of buhl. Give grasping pomp its double share — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - Страниц: 328
...One Stradivarius, I confess, Two Meerschaums, I would fain possess. Wealth's wasteful tricks I will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; —...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content I PAKSON TUKELL'S LEGACY: OB, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIB. A MATHEMATICAL STORY. FACTS respecting... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863 - Страниц: 672
...One Stradivarius, I confess, Tied Meerschaums, I would fain possess. Wealth's wasteful tricks I will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool;—...its double share,— I ask but one recumbent chair.* Marivauz, we are told, " avait les gouts recherche's que Ton conceit de la part d'une organisation... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1864 - Страниц: 458
...One Stradivarius, I confess, Two Meerschaums, I .would fain possess. 'Wealth's wasteful tricks I will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; —...I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me b've and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch ; If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1867 - Страниц: 606
...marrowy crapes of China silk, Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk. Wealth's wasteful tricks I will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; Shall...all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double care, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 530
...Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk. Wealth's wasteful tricks I will not learn, Nor ape the glitt'ring upstart fool ; Shall not carved tables serve my turn,...all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double care, — I ask but one recumbent chair. If Heaven more gen'rous gifts deny, I shall not miss them... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - Страниц: 434
...possess. Wealth's wasteful tricki I will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart, fool ; — Sual! not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of...double share,— I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus bumble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch, If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I... | |
 | 1869 - Страниц: 310
...One Stradivari us, I confess, Two Meerschaums, I would fain possess. Wealth's wasteful tricks I will not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; —...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! 74 DE SAUTY. AN ELECTRO-CHEMICAL ECLOGUE. Professor. Blue-Nose. PROFESSOR. r~pELL me, O Provincial... | |
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