The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: PoemsPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1896 |
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... its superior tone and appearance of vast experience , I concluded to have been written by a man at least three hundred years of age , though I recollected no existing instance of such antediluvian longevity . Nevertheless , I afterwards ...
... its superior tone and appearance of vast experience , I concluded to have been written by a man at least three hundred years of age , though I recollected no existing instance of such antediluvian longevity . Nevertheless , I afterwards ...
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... its respect- able editor , the Rev. Mr. Wilbur , of Jaalam , will afford a sufficient guaranty for the worth of its contents . . . . The paper is white , the type clear , and the volume of a conve- nient and attractive size . In reading ...
... its respect- able editor , the Rev. Mr. Wilbur , of Jaalam , will afford a sufficient guaranty for the worth of its contents . . . . The paper is white , the type clear , and the volume of a conve- nient and attractive size . In reading ...
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... its aspects of heavenliest pity and laughingest mirth . Conceivable enough ! Through coarse Thersites - cloak , we have revelation of the heart , wild - glow- ing , world - clasping , that is in him . Bravely he grapples with the life ...
... its aspects of heavenliest pity and laughingest mirth . Conceivable enough ! Through coarse Thersites - cloak , we have revelation of the heart , wild - glow- ing , world - clasping , that is in him . Bravely he grapples with the life ...
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... its woodcut and its moral rhyme , And pierced half - dollars hung on ribbons gay About my neck ( to be restored next day ) Ï carried home , rewards as shining then As those that deck the lifelong pains of men , More solid than the ...
... its woodcut and its moral rhyme , And pierced half - dollars hung on ribbons gay About my neck ( to be restored next day ) Ï carried home , rewards as shining then As those that deck the lifelong pains of men , More solid than the ...
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... it's clean gin up the ghost , We'll hev the tallest kind o ' roast ; I I guess our waistbands ' ll be tight ' Fore it comes ten o'clock ternight . " " I won't agree to no such bender , " Sez Isrel ; " keep it tell it's tender ; ' T aint ...
... it's clean gin up the ghost , We'll hev the tallest kind o ' roast ; I I guess our waistbands ' ll be tight ' Fore it comes ten o'clock ternight . " " I won't agree to no such bender , " Sez Isrel ; " keep it tell it's tender ; ' T aint ...
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Seite 78 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Seite 10 - There warn't no stoves (tell comfort died) To bake ye to a puddin'. The wa'nut logs shot sparkles out Towards the pootiest, bless her, An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser.
Seite 212 - An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'. 'T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur, A dogrose blushin' to a brook Ain't modester nor sweeter. He was six foot o...
Seite 11 - An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha' told ye nuther. Says he, "I'd better call agin," Says she, "Think likely, Mister;" Thet last word pricked him like a pin, An' — wal, he up an
Seite 66 - An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes; But John P. Robinson he Sez he wun't vote fer Guvener B. My ! ain't it terrible? Wut shall we du? We can't never choose him o...
Seite 274 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Seite 46 - Trainin' round in bobtail coats, — But it's curus Christian dooty This 'ere cuttin' folks's throats. They may talk o' Freedom's airy Tell they're pupple in the face,^ It's a grand gret cemetary Fer the barthrights of our race; They jest want this Californy So's to lug new slave-states in To abuse ye, an' to scorn ye, An
Seite 103 - Thet bombshells, grape, an' powder 'n' ball Air good-will's strongest magnets, Thet peace, to make it stick at all, Must be druv in with bagnets. In short, I firmly du believe In Humbug generally, Fer it 'aa thing thet I perceive To hev a solid vally ; This heth my faithful shepherd ben, In pasturs sweet heth led me, An' this '11 keep the people green To feed ez they hev fed me.
Seite 273 - Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge. If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching, folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
Seite 245 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...