 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 more than I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I know, And...  Household Friends for Every Season - Página 51de James Thomas Fields - 1864 - 327 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1897 - 404 páginas
...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...perhaps, be Plenipo, — But only near St. James; Г m very sure I should not care To fill our Gubernator's chair. Jewels are bawbles; 'tis a sin To... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 páginas
...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...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 baubles ; 'tis a sin... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 páginas
...bank-stock, — some note of hand, (Jr trifling railroad share ; — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I...perhaps, be Plenipo, — But only near St. James; — I'm very sure I should not care To fill our Gubernator's chair. Jewels are baubles ; 'tis a sin... | |
 | Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 páginas
...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... | |
 | 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 - 606 páginas
...trifling railroad share, — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honours 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 onr Gnbernator's chair. Jewels are baubles ; 'tis a siii... | |
 | 1867 - 530 páginas
...bank-stock, some note of hand, Or trifling railroad share, — I only ask that Fortune send Honours 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 baubles ; 'tis a sin To... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 434 páginas
...bank-stock, — some note oi hand, Or trifling railroad share; — I only ask that Fortune send A litue more than I shall spend. Honors are silly toys, I...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 - 416 páginas
...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,...Plenipo, — But only near St. James; I 'm very sure I would not care To fill our Gubernator's chair. Jewels are bawbles ; 'tis a sin To care for such unfruitful... | |
 | 1869 - 310 páginas
...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...are but empty names ; I would, perhaps, be Plenipo, — Jewels are bawbles ; 't is a sin To care for such unfruitful things ; — One good-sized diamond... | |
 | 1869 - 654 páginas
...trifling railroad share, — I only ask that Fortune send A little more than I shall spend. Honours 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 baubles; 'tis a sin To care... | |
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