| 1855 - 784 pages
...we take a few instances of shrewd observation and witty point from "TJrania, a Rhymed Lesson:" — Be firm ! one constant element in luck Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck ; Stick to your aim ; the mongrel's hold will slip, But only crowbars loose the bulldog's grip ; Small... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1861 - 304 pages
...busier foois ; Prudent ? Industrious ? Let not modern pens Instruct " Poor Richard's " fellow-citizens. Be firm ! one constant element in luck Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck; Sse yon tall shaft ; it felt the earthquake's thrill, Clung to its base, and greets the sunrise still.... | |
| William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1862 - 642 pages
...Writes each dark fault against thy brighter creed, And drops^a tear with every foolish bead ? ' » * Be firm ! one constant element in luck Is genuine,...slip, But only crowbars loose the bulldog's grip.' He inculcates caution as to making too much of a street salutation : — * Stop not, unthinking, every... | |
| Lydia M. Millard - 1865 - 276 pages
...in this than poetry, everybody knows. Something says to me the manuscript shall be published, — " Be firm ! one constant element in luck Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck." " Give battle to the leagued world, if thou art worthy, truly brave, And thou shall find the hardest... | |
| William Mathews - 1874 - 386 pages
...the poet Holmes, — Be firm ; one constant element of luck Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck. Stick to your aim : the mongrel's hold will slip,...But only crowbars loose the bull-dog's grip ; Small though he looks, the jaw that never yields Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields ! CHAPTER... | |
| William Mathews - 1874 - 376 pages
...the poet Holmes, — Be firm ; one constant element of luck Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck. Stick to your aim : the mongrel's hold will slip,...But only crowbars loose the bull-dog's grip ; Small though he looks, the jaw that never yields Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields ! CHAPTEE... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 436 pages
...genuine, solid, o'.d Tcuionic pluck ; Sco yon lull shaft ; it felt the earthquake's thrih, Clung to i;s base, and greets the sunrise still. Stick to your...Small as he looks, the jaw that never yields Drags dow.it .0 bellowing monareh of the fields ! Yet in opinions look not always back ; Your wako is nothing,... | |
| Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...rich treasure-house of love Thine own will never be. Oriental, tr. by Trench. 1274. FIRMNESS. Power of Aitken Bertram Holmes. 1275. FLATTERERS. OF all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant ; And of all tame — a flatterer.—... | |
| William Mathews - 1877 - 462 pages
...poet Holmes, — • " Be firm ; one constant element of luck Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck. Stick to your aim : the mongrel's hold will slip, But only crowbars loose the bull-do^'s grip ; Small though he looks, the jaw that never yields Drags down the bellowing monarch... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pages
...prudent. " — Napoleon. " Be firm ; one constant element of luck Is genuine, solid, old Teutonic pluck. Stick to your aim : the mongrel's hold will slip, But only crowbars loose the bulldog's grip ; Small though he looks, the jaw that never yields Drags down the bellowing monarch of the fields." — Oliver... | |
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