PREFACE.
In this, the third series of Breakfast-Table conversations,
a slight dramatic background shows off a few talkers
and writers, aided by certain silent supernumeraries.
The machinery is ...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), American physician and author, contributed to the advancement of medicine and wrote witty essays and popular poems.Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in Cambridge, Mass....
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For nearly a quarter of a century, from the publication in 1858 of The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table until his resignation form the Harvard Medical School in 1882, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes dominate...
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The elder Henry James once said to Oliver Wendell Holmes, "You are intellectually the most alive man I ever knew." Holmes replied, "I am, I am! From the crown of my head to the sole of my foot, I'm al...
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During his long career, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in a variety of genres and attained considerable popularity among his nineteenth-century contemporaries. Though interest in his work has declined, h...
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Biography EssayFor nearly a quarter of a century, from the publication in 1858 of The Autocrat of the Breakfast- Table until his resignation from the Harvard Medical School in 1882, Dr. Oliver Wendell...
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Best known as a poet and essayist, Oliver Wendell Holmes was also a renowned physician. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Holmes came from an old New England family. He earned both his undergraduate a...
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Best known as a poet and essayist, Oliver Wendell Holmes was also a renowned physician. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Holmes came from an old New England family. He earned both his undergraduate a...
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The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes