 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 279 pages
...enough for me ; Three courses are as good as ten ; — If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen ! I always thought cold victual nice...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
...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 - 1862 - 308 pages
...enough for me ; Three courses are as good as ten ; — If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen ! I always thought cold victual nice...— Give me a mortgage here and there, — Some good bank stock, — some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share ; — I only ask that Fortune send A... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 308 pages
...enough for me ; 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 would be vanilla-ice. * Some good bank stock, — some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share ; — I only ask that Fortune... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1863
...quite enough for me ; 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 would be vanilla-ice. « * * « * Eustace Conyers,p«s«'nt. Jewels are baubles ; 'tis a sia To care for such unfruitful... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1864 - 327 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... | |
 | 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
...; Three courses are as good as teu ; If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Ameu ! I always thought cold victual nice, — My choice...that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honours are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names ; I would, perhaps, be Plenipo — But... | |
 | 1867 - 464 pages
...quite enough for me ; Three courses are as good as ten ; If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three — Amen ! I always thought cold victual...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... | |
 | 1869
...quite enough for me; Three courses are as good as ten; If Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen! I always thought cold victual nice,...that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honours are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names; I would, perhaps, be Plenipo — But... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 396 pages
...Nature can subsist on three, Thank Heaven for three. Amen ! I always thought cold victual nice j — My choice would be vanilla-ice. I care not much for...— Give me a mortgage here and there, — Some good bank stock, — some note of hand. Or trifling railroad share, — I only ask that Fortune send A little... | |
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I only wish a hut of stone (A very plain brown stone will do) 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... 
