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The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With the Story of Iris - Page 331
by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1860 - 410 pages
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... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes ...: The professor at the breakfast-table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 380 pages
...unknowing whither her feet were leading her, and with wide blank eyes seeing nothing but the vision that beckoned her along. — • Well, I must wake her...matter before him, he lets his chance slip through his fingers. Iris woke up, of her own accord, before I had made up my mind what I was going to do about...
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The professor at the breakfast-tabel

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 382 pages
...unknowing whither her feet were leading her, and with wide blank eyes seeing nothing but the vision that beckoned her along. — Well, I must wake her from...matter before him, he lets his chance slip through his fingers. Iris woke up, of her own accord, before I had made up my mind what I was going to do about...
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The professor at the breakfast-tabel

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 356 pages
...with me into the grave, and a rose perhaps grow out of my dust, as a brier did out of Lord Lovel's, in memory of that immortal moment ! Would it wake...matter before him, he lets his chance slip through his fingers. Iris woke up, of her own accord, before I had made up my mind what I was going to do about...
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Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign ...

Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...light through chinks that time has made. Waller. The soul's emphasis is always right ЕжегgffM. of Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, and, in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. Th Holmes. The sphere-harmony of a Shakespeare, of a Goethe, the cathedral music of a Milton, the humble,...
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Gems

1897 - 184 pages
...it. Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. COWPER. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. OW HOLMES. More hearts pine away in secret anguish for the want of kindness from those who should be...
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Annual Report ..., Volume 5

Illinois Farmers' Institute - 1900 - 564 pages
...else would be mockery. An attractive home is ruled by the law of love. Oliver Wendell Holmes said: "The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer." When children do well parents ought not be ashamed to tell them so. "You can never...
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The professor at the breakfast table, with illustr. by H.M. Brock

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1902 - 408 pages
...gave to Alain Chartier has lasted four hundred years, and put it into the head of many an ill-favoured poet, whether Victoria, or Eugenie would do as much...matter before him, he lets his chance slip through his fingers. Iris woke up, of her own accord, before I had made up my mind what I was going to do about...
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Stokes' Encyclopedia of Familiar Quotations: Containing Five Thousand ...

1906 - 810 pages
...'s no helpe, — come, let us kisse and parte, MICHAEL DRAYTON, Come, Let Us Kisse and Parte, st, 1 The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer, HOLMES, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, xi Alas, for the love that 's linked with gold ! Better —...
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From Day to Day with Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1911 - 144 pages
...hermits that have hidden themselves away from the world to tell their griefs. Elsie Venner. JUNE FOURTH The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. The Professor. JUNE FIFTH Women love the conquering party, — it is the way of their sex. The Guardian...
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Il libro dei mille savi: massime, pensieri, aforismi, paradossi di tutti i ...

Fernando Palazzi, Silvio Spaventa Filippi - 1927 - 994 pages
...conversations, n. 875. Le vrai paradis n'est pas au ciel, mais surla bouchc d'une personne aimée. 876. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. 877. Is'ur das Wcib weiss, was Liebe ist, in Wonne und Verzwcifiung. Bei dem Manne bleibt sic zum Teil...
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