 IF all the trees in all the woods were men ; And each and every blade of grass a pen ; If every leaf on every shrub and tree Turned to a sheet of foolscap ; every sea Were changed to ink, and all earth's living tribes Had nothing else to do but act as...  College and Clinical Record - Página 1911890Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1890 - 616 páginas
...his little chat "Over the Teacaps," in the March Atlantic Monthly, as follows: CACOETHE8 9CRIBENDI . If all the trees In all the woods were men. And each...every shrub and tree Turned to a sheet of foolscap; ever}' sea Were changed to Ink, and all earth's living tribes Had nothing else to do but act as scribes,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 364 páginas
...I can assure you they are very curious. The following verses were found in the urn, or sugar-bowl. CACOETHES SCRIBENDI. If all the trees in all the woods...do but act as scribes, And for ten thousand ages, clay and night, The human race should write, and write, and write, Till all the pens and paper were... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 318 páginas
...Through their ripening days have run, And the bond, a beggar now, Seeks investment anyhow, Anywhere I CACOETHES SCRIBENDI IF all the trees in all the woods...earth's living tribes Had nothing else to do but act as scribeSj And for ten thousand ages, day and night, The human race should write, and write, and write,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 358 páginas
...I can assure you they are very curious. The following verses were found in the urn, or sugar-bowl. CACOETHES SCRIBENDI. If all the trees in all the woods were men, Arid each and every blade of grass a pen ; If every leaf on every shrub and tree Turned to a sheet... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 546 páginas
...have run. And the bond, a beggar now, Seeks investment anyhow, Anywhere! CACOETHES SCRIBENDI IF aD the trees in all the woods were men ; And each and...every sea Were changed to ink, and all earth's living tribe* Had nothing else to do but art as scribes. And for ten thousand ages, day and night, The human... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1895 - 390 páginas
...Through their ripening days have run, And the bond, a beggar now, Seeks investment anyhow, Anywhere ! CACOETHES SCRIBENDI IF all the trees in all the woods...every shrub and tree Turned to a sheet of foolscap ; evenr sea Were changed to ink, and all earth's living tribes Had nothing else to do but act as scribes.... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 968 páginas
...And live untroubled by woe,s and fears Through a second youth of a hundred years. CACOETHES SCRIUENDI IF all the trees in all the woods were men; And each...And for ten thousand ages, day and night, The human nice should write, and write, and write, Till all the pens and paper were used up, And the huge inkstand... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1904 - 240 páginas
...within the, definition. This is the amusing example of fanciful imagination which he chose to call 'Cacoethes Scribendi' : If all the trees in all the...foolscap ; every sea Were changed to ink, and all the earth's living tribes Had nothing else to do but act as scribes, And for ten thousand ages, day... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1917 - 484 páginas
...Through their ripening days have run, And the bond, a beggar now, Seeks investment anyhow, Anywhere I CACOETHES SCRIBENDI. IF all the trees in all the woods...changed to ink, and all earth's living tribes Had nothiug else to do bnt act as scribes, And for ten thousand ages, day and night, The human race should... | |
 | 1884 - 1022 páginas
...life must have been an editor, sends us the following neat Motto for the Waste-Basket : — If all (he trees in all the woods were men, And each and every...earth's living tribes Had nothing else to do but act a? scribes, And for ten thousand ages, day and night, The human race should write, aud write, and write,... | |
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