 That I may call my own; And close at hand is such a one, In yonder street that fronts the sun. Plain food is quite enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten; If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen!  The Quarterly Review - Page 234edited by - 1867Full view - About this book
 | Education - 1897 - 404 pages
...Three courses are as good as ten; — If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen! I always thought cold victual nice; — My choice...that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names; I would, perhaps, be Plenipo, — But... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...Three courses are as good as ten ;— If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Aiucu! I always thought cold victual nice ; — My choice...there,— Some good bank-stock, — some note of hand, (Jr trifling railroad share ; — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honors... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Satire, American - 1858 - 430 pages
...Three courses are as good as ten ; — If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen ! I always thought cold victual nice ; — My choice...there, — Some good bank-stock, — some note of baud, Or trifling railroad share ; — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend.... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 pages
...Thank heaven for three. Amen ! I always thought cold victuals nice — My choice would be vanilla ice. I care not much for gold or land ; Give me a mortgage here and there — Some good bank stock — some notes at hand, Or trifling railroad share ; I only ask that Fortune send, A little... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1862 - 326 pages
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...care not much for gold or land ; — Give me a mortgage here and there, — Some good bank stock, — some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share ; —...that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names ; I would, perhaps, be Plenipo, — But... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - American literature - 1864 - 458 pages
...Three courses are as good as ten ; — If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen I I always thought cold victual nice ; — My choice...railroad share, — I only ask that Fortune send A /•'''/• more than I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names... | |
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...Three courses are as good as ten ; If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three — Amen ! I always thought cold victual nice, — My choice...trifling railroad share, — I only ask that Fortune send Honours are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names ; I would, perhaps, be Plenipo — But... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American essays - 1868 - 434 pages
...on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen I I always thought cold victual nice ; — My choice would bo vanilla-ice. I care not much for gold or land ;—...and there, — Some good bank-stock, — some note oi hand, Or trifling railroad share; — I only ask that Fortune send A litue more than I shall spend.... | |
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...Three courses are as good as ten ; — If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen ! I always thought cold victual nice ; — My choice...that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names ; I would, perhaps, be Plenipo, — Jewels... | |
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