Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and His Works: Being a Brief Biography and Critical ReviewE. Stock, 1878 - 199 páginas |
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... sweet delusions , which I loved so well I would not outgrow them , even when it required a voluntary effort to put a momentary trust in them . Here is one which I cannot help telling you . 4 " The firing of the great guns at the Navy ...
... sweet delusions , which I loved so well I would not outgrow them , even when it required a voluntary effort to put a momentary trust in them . Here is one which I cannot help telling you . 4 " The firing of the great guns at the Navy ...
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... sweet , and so connected with one of those simple and curious superstitions of childhood of which I have spoken , that I can never cease to cherish a sad sort of love for it . Let me tell the superstitious fancy first . The Puritan ...
... sweet , and so connected with one of those simple and curious superstitions of childhood of which I have spoken , that I can never cease to cherish a sad sort of love for it . Let me tell the superstitious fancy first . The Puritan ...
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... sweet voices , he remarks : — " Ah , but I must not forget that dear little child I saw and heard in a French hospital . Between two and three years old . Fell out of her chair and snapped both thigh bones . Lying in bed , patient ...
... sweet voices , he remarks : — " Ah , but I must not forget that dear little child I saw and heard in a French hospital . Between two and three years old . Fell out of her chair and snapped both thigh bones . Lying in bed , patient ...
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... sweet poetry should read that poem of Keble's . As to personal appearance , Dr. Holmes begins now to show signs of age , being in his sixty - ninth year . We have before us a good photograph which pourtrays him - if we may adopt a mode ...
... sweet poetry should read that poem of Keble's . As to personal appearance , Dr. Holmes begins now to show signs of age , being in his sixty - ninth year . We have before us a good photograph which pourtrays him - if we may adopt a mode ...
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... sweet trances , had we not silenced the matin song in its first low breathings ! Just as my heart yearns over the unloved , just so it sorrows for the ungifted who are doomed to the pangs of an un- deceived self - estimate . One doesn't ...
... sweet trances , had we not silenced the matin song in its first low breathings ! Just as my heart yearns over the unloved , just so it sorrows for the ungifted who are doomed to the pangs of an un- deceived self - estimate . One doesn't ...
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Página 121 - We have but faith: we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow. Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Página 19 - China silk, Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk. I would not have the horse I drive So fast that folks must stop and stare; An easy gait — two, forty-five — Suits me; I do not care; Perhaps, for just a single spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Raphaels three or four — I love so much their style and tone — One Turner, and no more.
Página 30 - 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 39 - O Love Divine, that stooped to share Our sharpest pang, our bitterest tear, On Thee we cast each earthborn care, We smile at pain while Thou art near 1 Though long the weary way we tread, And sorrow crown each lingering year, No path we shun, no darkness dread, Our hearts still whispering, Thou art near...
Página 19 - Little I ask ; my wants are few ; I only wish a hut of stone, (A very plain brown stone will do,) That I may call my own ; — And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. Plain food is quite enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten ; — If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen!
Página 40 - O Father ! grant Thy love divine To make these mystic temples Thine ! When wasting age" and wearying strife Have sapped the leaning walls of life, When darkness gathers over all, And the last tottering pillars fall, Take the poor dust Thy mercy warms, And mould it into heavenly forms ! VIII.
Página 40 - Sun of our life, Thy quickening ray Sheds on our path the glow of day ; Star, of our hope, Thy softened light Cheers the long watches of the night.
Página 40 - Not in the world of light alone, Where God has built His blazing throne, Nor yet alone in earth below, With belted seas that come and go, And endless isles of sunlit green, Is all thy Maker's glory seen : Look in upon thy wondrous frame, — Eternal wisdom still the same...
Página 21 - Thee." 1 am not a Churchman, — I don't believe in planting oaks in flower-pots, — but such a poem as " The Rosebud" makes one's heart a proselyte to the culture it grows from. Talk about it as much as you like, — one's breeding shows itself nowhere more than in his religion. A man should be a gentleman in his hymns and prayers ; the fondness for
Página 117 - ... at least six persons engaged in every dialogue between two. Of these, the least important, philosophically speaking, is the one that we have called the real person. No wonder two disputants often get angry, when there are six of them talking and listening all at the same time. [^A very unphilosophical application of the above remarks was made by a young fellow answering to the name of John, who sits near me at table.