Oliver Wendell HolmesS. Sonnenschein and Company, 1893 - 144 páginas |
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... probably maintain popularity as long as the best of Holmes's work ; not , be it understood , that I rank it with the best , but it possesses that charm which belongs to other frankly egoistic books , and in virtue of which they continue ...
... probably maintain popularity as long as the best of Holmes's work ; not , be it understood , that I rank it with the best , but it possesses that charm which belongs to other frankly egoistic books , and in virtue of which they continue ...
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... probably been largely responsible for the colouring of the whole , or at any rate a great part , of Holmes's poetic work . Even with some of the essentially pathetic pieces , there is yet an atmosphere of humour through which they are ...
... probably been largely responsible for the colouring of the whole , or at any rate a great part , of Holmes's poetic work . Even with some of the essentially pathetic pieces , there is yet an atmosphere of humour through which they are ...
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... probably owed its appearance at that time to the unqualified welcome extended to it by a critic of such true instinct as Mary Russell Mitford . A glance at these words of welcome , in the light of the poet's later great success , may ...
... probably owed its appearance at that time to the unqualified welcome extended to it by a critic of such true instinct as Mary Russell Mitford . A glance at these words of welcome , in the light of the poet's later great success , may ...
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... probably existed as long as human language , yet an adequate definition of what it really is that we mean by the word is yet to seek . It has been attempted numberless times by widely different persons ; as often has it been sought ...
... probably existed as long as human language , yet an adequate definition of what it really is that we mean by the word is yet to seek . It has been attempted numberless times by widely different persons ; as often has it been sought ...
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... probably but natural - youth knows no " happy mean , " if the term be not inaccurate - it is wildly playful , or , when serious , it is so in deadly earnest . In middle and later life the poet has apparently realised that his work has ...
... probably but natural - youth knows no " happy mean , " if the term be not inaccurate - it is wildly playful , or , when serious , it is so in deadly earnest . In middle and later life the poet has apparently realised that his work has ...
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Página 42 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair.
Página 34 - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the...
Página 119 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Página 119 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new...
Página 121 - I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
Página 35 - My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady, she is dead Long ago— That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer! And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At...
Página 45 - Damsel Dorothy! Dorothy Q.! Strange is the gift that I owe to you; Such a gift as never a king Save to daughter or son might bring, — All my tenure of heart and hand, All my title to house and land; Mother and sister and child and wife And joy and sorrow and death and life! What if a hundred years ago Those close-shut lips had answered No...
Página 125 - Tis indeed a part of life that best expresseth death; for every man truly lives, so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties of himself.
Página 34 - And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone." The mossy marbles rest On the lips that he has prest In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Página 142 - Time claims his tribute ; silence now is golden ; Let me not vex the too long suffering lyre ; Though to your love untiring still beholden, The curfew tells me — cover up the fire. And now with grateful smile and accents cheerful...