 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 ;...  The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table - Стр. 372авторы: Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - Страниц: 474Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1897 - Страниц: 404
...tricks I wiH 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...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content! The Opening of the Piano. In the little southern parlor of the house you may have seen With the gambrel-roof,... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - Страниц: 642
...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...shall not miss them much — Too grateful for the blessings lent, Of simple tastes and mind content. El I> ITORI .A. L " Scatter diligently in susceptible... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - Страниц: 368
...I will 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...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! PARSON TURELL'S LEGACY: OR, THE PRESIDENT'S OLD ARM-CHAIR. A MATHEMATICAL STORY. FACTS respecting... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863 - Страниц: 672
...tricks I will 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.* Marivauz, we are told, " avait les gouts recherche's que Ton conceit de la part d'une organisation... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1864 - Страниц: 458
...I will 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...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
...not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double care, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! ' Having had our laugh at Yankee humour, let us glance at what it tells us seriously. In the first... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 530
...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 much, — Too grateful...the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content I' ORIGIN OF THE PRINTER'S DEVIL. FRANCIS BROWNE. WHEN Faustus, at first, did his printing begin, A... | |
 | 1869 - Страниц: 310
...I will 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...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... | |
 | 1869 - Страниц: 654
...not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl? Give grasping pomp its double care, — 1 ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me live...blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content!' Having had our laugh at Yankee humour, let us glance at what it tells us seriously. In the first place... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - Страниц: 416
...I will 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...but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let. me live aud die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch ; If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them... | |
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