 | International Correspondence Schools - 1899
...greet the maid, And ask a draft from the spring that flowed Through the meadow, across the road. 5. Talking is like playing on the harp ; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. 6. You must... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900
...except at dead-low tide.— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Stopping the Strings of the Heart.— Talking is like playing on the harp ; there is as...much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibrations, as in twanging them to bring out their music.— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Chap.... | |
 | James Mollison Milne - 1900 - 374 pages
...3. Itiches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. — Wallace. 4. Talking is like playing on the harp ; there is as much in laying the hands 0n the strings to stop their vibrations, as in twanging them to bring out their music. — Holmes.... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902
...the Breakfast Toóle. Stopping th» Strlngt of the Heart. — Talking is like playing on the h»rp ; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibrations, as in twanging them to bring out their music.— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Chap.... | |
 | Charles Josselyn - 1903 - 292 pages
...social order, so a code of finalities is a necessary condition of profitable talk between two persons. Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. 1 . . i... | |
 | 1916
...Mothers. SEPTEMBER . 1917 10 CENTS A COPY Third year of this advertising tn The Silent Partner Advertising is like playing on the harp — there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop a vibration, as there is in twanging them to bring out the music. That's... | |
 | 1906 - 763 pages
...rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse. COWPER, Conversation, lines 7, 8 Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. HOLMES,... | |
 | Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Medical School - 1907
...end outside." The Professor at the Breakfast Table. — Oliver Wendell Holmes. TOASTMASTER EC DUDLEY "Talking is like playing on the harp : there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music." The Autocrat... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson McEvoy - 1908 - 446 pages
...ship is like being in a jail with a chance of being drowned.—Johnson. 10. Talking is like playing a harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.—Holmes. 240. Drill on participle used as... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1911 - 126 pages
...bulrushes round little Moses, On the old banks of the Nile. Questions and Answer*. NOVEMBER FOURTH Talking is like playing on the harp ; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. The Autocrat.... | |
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Talking is like playing on the harp ; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music. 
