Over the Teacups, Volume 4Houghton, Mifflin, 1891 - 319 pages Originally released as a series of essays in the Atlantic Monthly, Over the Teacups, like Holmes' Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, is a table talk book that discusses age and how to live a long life; how to be a great conversationalist; the art of reading.--Vendor's description. |
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Page 4
... round our table , but of that larger company of friends who lis- tened to our conversations as reported . Dear girl with the silken ringlets , dear boy with the down - shadowed cheek , your grandfather , your grandmother , turned over ...
... round our table , but of that larger company of friends who lis- tened to our conversations as reported . Dear girl with the silken ringlets , dear boy with the down - shadowed cheek , your grandfather , your grandmother , turned over ...
Page 9
... rounded pebbles , shaped , smoothed , and polished by long attrition against each other . These thoughts remain very much the same from day to day , even from week to week ; and , as we grow older , from month to month , and from year ...
... rounded pebbles , shaped , smoothed , and polished by long attrition against each other . These thoughts remain very much the same from day to day , even from week to week ; and , as we grow older , from month to month , and from year ...
Page 10
... rounded and take its place with the others , but the pebbled floor of consciousness is almost as stationary as the pavement of a city thoroughfare . It so happens that at this particular time I have something to tell which I am quite ...
... rounded and take its place with the others , but the pebbled floor of consciousness is almost as stationary as the pavement of a city thoroughfare . It so happens that at this particular time I have something to tell which I am quite ...
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... round a note or a dress for a life- time . Do you not remember what Professor Silliman says , in that pleasant journal of his , about the little ebony cabinet which Mary , Queen of Scots , brought with her from France , -how its drawers ...
... round a note or a dress for a life- time . Do you not remember what Professor Silliman says , in that pleasant journal of his , about the little ebony cabinet which Mary , Queen of Scots , brought with her from France , -how its drawers ...
Page 26
... round for them , and - women say , see only their vacant places . The old vine cannot unwind its tendrils . The branch falls with the decay of its support , and must cling to the new growths around it , if it would not lie helpless in ...
... round for them , and - women say , see only their vacant places . The old vine cannot unwind its tendrils . The branch falls with the decay of its support , and must cling to the new growths around it , if it would not lie helpless in ...
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