 I would rather have lived in a hut with a vine growing over the door, and the grapes growing purple in the kisses of the autumn sun. I would rather have been that poor peasant with my loving wife by my side, knitting as the day died out of the sky —...  American Medicine - Page 6631921Full view - About this book
 | Sarah Neal Harris - 1891 - 206 pages
...purple in the amorous kisses of the autumn sun ; I would rather have been that poor peasant, with my wife by my side knitting as the day died out of the sky, with my children upon my knees and their arms about me ; I would rather have been this man and gone down to the tongueless silence... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1892 - 254 pages
...died out of the sky — with my children upon my knees and their arms about me — I would rather haye been that man and gone down to the tongueless silence...the dreamless dust, than to have been that imperial impersonation of force and murder. It is not necessary to be great to be happy ; it is not necessary... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1892 - 970 pages
...purple in the amorous kisses of the autumn sun ; I would rather have been that poor peasant, with my wife by my side knitting as the day died out of the sky, with my children upon my knees and their arms about me; I would rather have been this man and gone down to the tongueless silence... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1892 - 970 pages
...amorous kisses of the autumn sun ; I would rather have been that poor peasant, with my wife by ray side knitting as the day died out of the sky, with my children upon my knees and their arms about me; I would rather have been this man and gone down to the tongueless silence... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - 1894 - 346 pages
...my loving'wife by my side, knitting as the day died out of the sky—with my children upon my knees and their arms about me ; I would rather have been...man and gone down to the tongueless silence of the dreamleess dust, than to have been that imperial impersonation of force and murder known as Napoleon... | |
 | Gilbert John Clark - 1895 - 434 pages
...grapes growing purple in the kisses of the autumn sun. I would rather have been that poor peasant, with my loving wife by my side, knitting as the day died out of the sky, with my chilm dren upon my knees and their arms about me. I would rather have been that man, and gone down... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll, Thomas W. Handford - 1899 - 410 pages
...the grapes growing purple in the kisses of the Autumn sun. I would rather have been that poor peasant with my loving wife by my side, knitting as the day died out of the sky— with my children upon my knees and their arms about me; I would rather have been that man and gone down to the tongueless silence... | |
 | James Baird McClure - 1899 - 520 pages
...grapes growing purple in the kisses of the Autumn sun ; I would rather have been that poor peasant with my loving wife by my side, knitting as the day died out of the sky, with my children upon my knees and their arms about me ; I would rather have been that man and gone down to the tongueless silence... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1900 - 504 pages
...my loving wife by my side, knitting as the day died out of the sky, with my children upon my knees and their arms about me, I would rather have been...the dreamless dust, than to have been that imperial impersonation of force and murder, known as Napoleon the Great." THE DEAD NAPOLEON.1 WILLIAM M. THACKERAY.... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1900 - 506 pages
...growing purple in the amorous kisses of the autumn sun. I would rather have been that poor peasant, with my loving wife by my side, knitting as the day died out of the sky, with my children upon my knees and their arms about me, I would rather have been that man, and gone down to the tongueless silence... | |
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