 | 1897
...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 tone, — One Turner, 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 279 pages
...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...country cream. Busts, cameos, gems, — such things as these, Which others often show for pride, / value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860
...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 308 pages
...would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should lite to own Titians and Raphaels three or four, — I love so much their style and tone, — One Turner, and...country cream. Busts, cameos, gems, — such things as these, One Stradivarius, I confess, Two Meerschaums, I would fain possess. "Wealth's wasteful tricks... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863
...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,...country cream. Busts, cameos, gems, — such things as these, Which others often show for pride, 7 value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863
...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,... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1864 - 327 pages
...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...country cream. Busts, cameos, gems, — such things as these, Which others often show for pride, /value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 396 pages
...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...morocco's gilded gleam, And vellum rich as country cream. /value for their power to please, And selfish churls deride ; — One Stradivarius, I confess, Two... | |
 | JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER - 1869
...less would do no hurt. Of pictures, I should like to own Titians and Kaphaels three or four, I love so much their style and tone, — One Turner, and...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870
...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...country cream. Busts, cameos, gems — such things as these, Which others often show for pride, / value for their power to please. And selfish churls deride... | |
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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... 
