 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 444 páginas
...Nightingale — says that the music you pour out is good for sick folks, and the music you pound out is n't. Not that exactly, but something like it. I have been...made of a stick of elder and carries a pellet of very moderats consistency. That Boy was in his seat and looking demure enough, but there could be no question... | |
 | 1872 - 794 páginas
...jumps, up and down, back and forward, one hand over the other, like a stampede of rats and mice mors than like anything I call music. I like to hear a...small piece of artillery such as is made of a stick of cider and carries a pellet of very moderate consistency. That Boy was in his seat and looking demure... | |
 | 1872 - 860 páginas
...mice more than anything I call music. I like to hear a woman sing, and I like to hear a fiddle ling, but these noises they hammer out of their wood and ivory anvils — don't talk to me, 1 know the difference between a bullfrog and a woodthrush." [Doubt if you do.— ASS] Mr. John Thomas,... | |
 | Samuel Barker (M.D.) - 1875 - 364 páginas
...and I like to hear a fiddle sing, but these noises they hammer out of their wood and ivory anvil — don't talk to me ; I know the difference between a bull-frog and a woodthrush." 134 The choice of occupation for boys. profit, as opposed to the meretricious, sensational, and dangerous... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1881 - 188 páginas
...»H»— i» H i i— rF rr oh, to see how proud it waves, Brings tears of joy to ev* - ry eye. like hear a woman sing, and I like to hear a fiddle sing;...— don't talk to me ! I know the difference between abull-frog and a wood-thrush." — Dr. Holmes. CHILDEEN have a certain instinct in the matter of musical... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 434 páginas
...Nightingale — says that the music you pour out is good for sick folks, and the music you pound out is n't. Not that exactly, but something like it. I have been...of very moderate consistency. That Boy was in his scat and looking demure enough, but there could be no question that he was the artillery-man who had... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 páginas
...like to hear a fiddle sing, but those noises they hammer out of those wood and ivory anvils—don't talk to me, I know the difference between a bull-frog and a wood-thrush. —Oliver Wendell Holmes. CLXXXIX.—THE GHOST. 'T is about twenty years since Abel Law, A short, round-favored,... | |
 | Robert Kidd - 1883 - 518 páginas
...like to hear a fiddle sing, but those noises they hammer out of those wood and ivory anvils — do n't talk to me, I know the difference between a bull-frog and a wood-thrush. — Oliver Wendell Holmes. CLXXXIX.— THE GHOST. 'Tis about twenty years since Abel Law, A short,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 444 páginas
...Nightingale — says that the music you pour out is good for sick folks, and the music you pound out is n't. Not that exactly, but something like it. I have been...of very moderate consistency. That Boy was in his scat and looking demure enough, but there could be no question that he was the artillery-man who had... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1886 - 328 páginas
...back and forward, one hand over the other, like a stampede of rats and mice more than like any thing I call music. I like to hear a woman sing, and I like...difference between a bull-frog and a wood-thrush. — The Poet at the BreakfastTable. THE OLD MAN DREAMS. 0 for one hour of youthful joy! Give back my... | |
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... em at once, and then a grand clatter and scramble and string of jumps, up and down, back and forward, one hand over the other, like a stampede of rats and mice more than like anything I call music. I like to hear a woman sing, and I like to hear a... 
