 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Satire, American - 1858 - 430 pages
...closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; our will cannot stop them...have carried so long beneath our wrinkled foreheads. If we could only get at them, as we lie on our pillows and count the dead beats of thought after thought... | |
 | 1860 - 908 pages
...forgive you. . ." And so, as I have said before, to-morrow, "God willing," will be my wedding-day. which we call the heart, silence at last the clicking...have carried so long beneath our wrinkled foreheads. KNOWLEDGE may slumber in the memory, but it never dies ; it is like the dormouse in 0, .._ „ __._... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...themselves; sleep cannot still them; madness only makes them go faster ; death alone can break ioto the case, and, seizing the ever-swinging pendulum,...have carried so long beneath our wrinkled foreheads. THE SEA-SHORE AND THE MOUNTAINS. I have lived by the sea-shore and by the mountains. No, I am not going... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1866 - 848 pages
...closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the angel of resurrection. " Tic-tac, tic-tac, go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them...have carried so long beneath our wrinkled foreheads I " If we could only get at them as we lie on our pillows, and count the dead beats of thought after... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1866 - 852 pages
...death alono can break into the case* and, seizing the ever-swinging pendulum wo call the heart, eilenco at last the clicking of the terrible escapement we...have carried so long beneath our wrinkled foreheads. If we could only get at them, as we lie on onr pillowа and count the dead beats of thought after thought... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American essays - 1868 - 434 pages
...sleep cannot still them ; madness pnly makes them go faster; death alone can break into the case, arid, seizing the ever-swinging pendulum, which we call...have carried so long beneath our wrinkled foreheads. If we could only get at them, as we lie on our pillows and count the dead beats of thought after thought... | |
 | Education - 1869 - 376 pages
...closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the angel of the resurrection. Tic-tac ! tictac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them...have carried so long beneath our wrinkled foreheads. If we could only get at them, as we lie on our pillows and count the dead beats of thought after thought,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 pages
...closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tac ! go the wheels of thought ; our will cannot stop them;...have carried -so long beneath our wrinkled foreheads. If we could only get at them, as we lie on our pillows and count the dead beats of thought after thought... | |
 | Phrenology - 1870 - 936 pages
...go the wheels of thought ; our will can not stop them ; they can not stop themselves ; sleep can not still them ; madness only makes them go faster ; death...have carried so long beneath our wrinkled foreheads. If we 1870.] [FEB., could only get at them, as we lie on our pillows and count the dead beats of thought... | |
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Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; our will cannot stop them ; they cannot stop themselves ; sleep cannot still them ; madness only makes them go faster ; death alone can break into the case, and, seizing the ever-swinging pendulum, which we... 
