 Wealth's wasteful 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 share — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor...  American Familiar Verse - หน้า 108แก้ไขโดย - 1904 - 308 หน้ามุมมองทั้งเล่ม - เกี่ยวกับหนังสือเล่มนี้
 | 1897 - 404 หน้า
...gems, — such things as these, Which others often show for pride, / value for their power to please, And selfish churls' deride; — One Stradivarius,...Meerschaums, I would fain possess. Wealth's wasteful tricks I wiH not learn Nor ape the glittering upstart fool; — Shall not carved tables serve my turn, But all... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 หน้า
...gems, — such things as these, Which others often show for pride, / value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride ; — One Stradivarius,...be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double share, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 หน้า
...gems, — such things as them* Which others often show for pride, I value for their power to please, . And selfish churls deride ;— One Stradivarius, I...Wealth's wasteful tricks I will not learn, Nor ape th( glittering upstart fool ;— Siia!' not carved tables serve my turn, Rut all must be of buhl ?... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 หน้า
...others show for pride, I value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride; One Tradivarins, I confess ; Two Meerschaums I would fain possess. Wealth's wasteful tricks I would not learn, Nor ape the glittering upstart fool ; Shall not carved tables serve my turn 1 But... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 326 หน้า
...gems, — such things as these, Which others often show for pride, /value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride ; — One Stradivarius,...be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double share, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 346 หน้า
...morocco's gilded gleam, And vellum rich as country cream. Busts, cameos, gems, — such things as these, One Stradivarius, I confess, Two Meerschaums, I would...be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double share, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863 - 666 หน้า
...gems, — such things as these, Which others often show for pride, 7 value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride ; — One Stradivarius,...be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double share, — I ask but one recumbent chair.* Marivaux, we are told, " avait les gouts recherche's que Ton eon<;.oit... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863 - 672 หน้า
...7 value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride;— One Stradivarius, I confess, Tied Meerschaums, I would fain possess. Wealth's wasteful...be of buhl? Give grasping pomp its double share,— I ask but one recumbent chair.* Marivauz, we are told, " avait les gouts recherche's que Ton conceit... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1864 - 458 หน้า
...gems, — such things as these, Which others often show for pride, /value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride ; — One Stradivarius,...be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double share, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me b've and die, Nor long for Midas' golden touch... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1867 - 606 หน้า
...shawls of true Cashmere, — Some marrowy crapes of China silk, Like wrinkled skins on scalded milk. Wealth's wasteful tricks I will not learn, Nor ape...all must be of buhl ? Give grasping pomp its double care, — I ask but one recumbent chair. Thus humble let me live and die, Nor long for Midas' golden... | |
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