 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
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - Страниц: 564
...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...shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and iniiid content ! MY LAST WALK WITH THE SCHOOLMISTRESS. (A Parenthesis.)... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1898 - Страниц: 328
...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...chair. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas's golden touch; If Heaven more generous gifts deny, I shall not miss them much,— Too grateful... | |
 | 1905 - Страниц: 404
...Shall 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...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... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, George Rice Carpenter, Jennie Freeborn Owens - 1906 - Страниц: 504
...; — Some little luxury there 20 Of red morocco's gilded gleam, And vellum rich as country cream. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas'...shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. subsist', exist, live;... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1907 - Страниц: 370
...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 me recumbent chair. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch, If Heaven more... | |
 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder - 1908 - Страниц: 264
...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...shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! TOM'S MONEY BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Mrs. Laughton... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1908 - Страниц: 452
...the glittering upstart fool ; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all must be of buhl f Give grasping pomp its double share, — I ask but...shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! /ESTIVATION. AN UNPUBLISHED POEM, BY MY LATB LATIN... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker - 1909 - Страниц: 504
...; — Some little luxury there 20 Of red morocco's gilded gleam, And vellum rich as country cream. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas'...shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content ! — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. subsist', exist, live;... | |
 | 1910 - Страниц: 532
...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...shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and mind content! JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL [1819-1891] 805 THE PRESENT CRISIS... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1910 - Страниц: 370
...But all must be of buhl? Give grasping pomp its double share, — I ask but one recumbent chair. 12 Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas'...shall not miss them much, — Too grateful for the blessing lent Of simple tastes and minds content! HELPS TO STUDY Notes and With what statement does... | |
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