 | 1897
...mortgage here and there, — Some good bank-stock, some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share, — I only ask 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 - 373 pages
...trifling railroad share ; — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names;—...Gubernator's chair. Jewels are baubles ; 'tis a sin 'Jo care for such unfruitful things y— One good-sized diamond in a pin, — Some, not so large, in... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 279 pages
...here and 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. Honors are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names ; — I would, perhaps, be Plenipo, —... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860
...trifling railroad share ; I only ask that Fortune send, A little more than I can spend. Honors arc silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names ; I would perhaps be Plenipo — But only mean St. James ; I 'm sure I should not care To fill our Gubcrnator's chair. Jewels are baubles ; 't... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 308 pages
...trifling railroad share ; — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names...would, perhaps, be Plenipo, — But only near St. James ; I 'm very sure I should not care To fill our Gubernator's chair. Jewels are bawbles ; 't is a sin... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 308 pages
...here and there, — Some good bank stock, — some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share ; — I only ask 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 - 1864 - 327 pages
...trifling 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...would, perhaps, be Plenipo, — But only near St. James ; I 'm very sure I should not care To fill our Gubernator's chair. Jewels are bawbles ; 't is a sin... | |
 | 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
...mortgage here and there, Some good bank-stock, some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share, — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall...St. James ; I'm very sure I should not care To fill onr Gnbernator's chair. Jewels are baubles ; 'tis a siii To care for such unfruitful things ; — One... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 373 pages
...Or trifling railroad share; — I only ask that Fortune send A litue more than I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I know, And titles are but empty names;— I would, perhaps, be Plcuipo, — But only near .St. James;— I'm very sure I should not care To fill our Gubcrnator's... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 396 pages
...here and there, — Some good bank stock, — some note of hand. Or trifling railroad share, — I only ask 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... | |
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I always thought cold victual 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 note of hand, Or trifling railroad share — I only ask that Fortune send A little... 
