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" 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... "
Household Friends for Every Season ... - Page 42
edited by - 1881 - 320 pages
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Wisconsin Journal of Education, Volume 27

1897 - 404 pages
...single spurt, Some seconds less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like to own Titans and Raphaels three or four, — I love so much their style and...golden dirt, — The sunshine painted with a squirt.) iOf books but few, — som,e fifty score For daily use, and bound for wear; The rest upon an upper...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pages
...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...such things as these, Which others often show for pride, / value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride ; — One Stradivarius, I confess,...
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The Autocrat of the breakfast table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like to own Tili. in - and Raphaels three or four,— 1 love so much their style and tone,— One Turner,...country cream. Busts, cameos, gems, — such things as them* Which others often show for pride, I value for their power to please, . And selfish churls deride...
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The Ashlar, Volume 5

Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 pages
...less would do no hurt. Of pictures I should like to own Titans and Raphaels three or four — Hove so much their style and tone — One Turner and no...few — some fifty score, For daily use, and bound to wear ; The rest upon an upper floor; Some little luxury there Of red morocco's gilded gleam, And...
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Songs in Many Keys

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 326 pages
...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...such things as these, Which others often show for pride, /value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride ; — One Stradivarius, I confess,...
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Songs in Many Keys

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 328 pages
...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...cream. Busts, cameos, gems, — such things as these, One Stradivarius, I confess, Two Meerschaums, I would fain possess. Wealth's wasteful tricks I will...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 54

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863 - 666 pages
...large, in rings, — A ruby, and a pearl, or so, Will do for me ; — I laugh at show. * « * * • Of books but few, — some fifty score For daily use,...such things as these, Which others often show for pride, 7 value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride ; — One Stradivarius, I confess,...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 54

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863 - 672 pages
...rings,— A ruby, and a pearl, or so, Will d"o for me;—I laugh at show. * * * * Of books bnt few,—some fifty score For daily use, and bound for wear; The...gleam, And vellum rich as country cream. Busts, cameos, gems,—such things as these, Which others often show for pride, 7 value for their power to please,...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 434 pages
...tingle tpurl, Some seconds less would do no hurt Of pictures, I should like to own Titiant and Raphaels three or four.— I love so much their style and tone,—...such things as these. Which others often show for pride, / value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride ; — One Stradivarius, I confess,...
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Companion Poets, Volume 1

1869 - 310 pages
...Some, not so large, in rings, A ruby, and a pearl, or so, Will do for me ; — I laugh at show. My dame should dress in cheap attire ; (Good, heavy silks...and bound for wear ; The rest upon an upper floor ; Busts, cameos, gems, — such things as these, Which others often show for pride, I value for their...
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