 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 Ashlar - Стр. 137редактор(ы): - 1860Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - Страниц: 354
...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...Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them mucA, — Too grateful for blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! MY LAST WALK WITH THE... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - Страниц: 492
...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. 9. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch : If Heaven more generous gifts... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - Страниц: 504
...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. 9. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch : If Heaven more generous gifts... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - Страниц: 434
...glittering upstart fool j — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Gtve grasping pomp its double share, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humMe let me live and die, Nor long for Midas* golden touch, If Ileaven more generous gifts deny, I... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - 1899 - Страниц: 530
...of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double care — I ask out one recumbent chair. Thus humble let mo live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch ; If Heaven more gen'rous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1884 - Страниц: 988
...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...chair. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midns' golden touch ; If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much,-~ Too grateful... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - Страниц: 460
...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...Nor long for Midas' golden touch ; If Heaven more gen'rous gifts deny, 1 shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple taxis*... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - Страниц: 458
...not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double cаrе, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me...Nor long for Midas' golden touch ; If Heaven more gen'rous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tiistcs... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - 1884 - Страниц: 442
...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. 9. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch; If Heaven more generous gifts... | |
 | George Boyle - 1886 - Страниц: 318
...not carved tables serve my turn. But all must be of buhl?3) Give grasping pomp its double care, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me...shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content! ') Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James (the... | |
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