 | United States. Congress - Legislators - 1954 - 152 pages
...understanding with warmth and good humor. Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing in 1831, put it this way: "And If I should live to be The last leaf upon the...do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling." [From the Waynesvllle (NC) Mountaineer of May 17, 1954] SENATOR CLYDE R. HOEY Perhaps no man In public... | |
 | United States. Congress - Legislators - 1954 - 154 pages
...understanding with warmth and good humor. Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing In 1831, put it this way: "And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the...do now. At the old forsaken bough Where I cling." [From the Waynesville (NC) Mountaineer of May 17, 1954J SENATOR CLYDE R. HOEY Perhaps no man In public... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - Electronic journals - 1921 - 596 pages
...His own fondness for so apt a figure is shown by its repeated use. In 1831 (The Last Leaf) he wrote And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the...I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. Thirty years later he uses the same figure (The Old Player 1861) Yet there he stood, — the man of... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...snow; But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is...I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay A Logical Story Have you heard of the wonderful... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Cut him down. Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. (1. 7—12) 16 hral statues lay; (1. 43-48) AA; AmPP; AnAmPo; FaBoBe; FaPON; NAAL-1; PoLF; PWR; WBLP Old Ironsides 17 Ay, tear her tattered... | |
 | John Harley Warner - History - 2003 - 482 pages
...Centenary Biography: Oliver Wendell Holmes (London: Headley Brothers, 1909], pp. 94-95), which ends: "And if I should live to be / The last leaf upon the...now / At the old forsaken bough / Where I cling." 137. A. Stills to Henry I. Bowditch, Philadelphia, 25 Feb. 1882, Bowditch, Collection of Autograph... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - Religion - 2003 - 720 pages
...rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the...I do now At the old forsaken bough Where I cling. During his visit to London in 1886 he called upon me more than once. He was as brisk and lively as... | |
 | 472 pages
...snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh. I know it is...hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer ! ls^3i^&*^^^^^^ Vi J ^iiJi J^y "^ ' S^^ ^i|**P»*^^^, jMliyilllliiiill^ ^lillrf Mge^gggiW * , tft<$pfym$&?... | |
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My grandmamma has said — Poor old lady ! she is dead Long ago — That he had a Roman nose, And his cheek was like a rose In the snow. But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack... 
