The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...Ticknor and Fields, 1866 |
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... question . In the edition now issued , no pains are neg- lected , and my verses , as orators say , stand cor- rected . Yet some blunders remain of the public's own make , which I wish to correct for my personal sake . For instance , a ...
... question . In the edition now issued , no pains are neg- lected , and my verses , as orators say , stand cor- rected . Yet some blunders remain of the public's own make , which I wish to correct for my personal sake . For instance , a ...
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... question of larger or less , Whose stomachs are strong at the expense of their head , - For reading new books is like eating new bread , One can bear it at first , but by gradual steps he Is brought to death's door of a mental dyspepsy ...
... question of larger or less , Whose stomachs are strong at the expense of their head , - For reading new books is like eating new bread , One can bear it at first , but by gradual steps he Is brought to death's door of a mental dyspepsy ...
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... question , For , on this side the water , ' tis prudent to pull O'er the eyes of the public their national wool , By accusing of slavish respect to John Bull , All American authors who have more or less Of that anti - American humbug ...
... question , For , on this side the water , ' tis prudent to pull O'er the eyes of the public their national wool , By accusing of slavish respect to John Bull , All American authors who have more or less Of that anti - American humbug ...
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... question his soul was immersed , - Which foot in the stirrup he ought to put first ; And , while this point and that he judicially dwelt on , He , somehow or other , had written Paul Felton , Whose beauties or faults , whichsoever you ...
... question his soul was immersed , - Which foot in the stirrup he ought to put first ; And , while this point and that he judicially dwelt on , He , somehow or other , had written Paul Felton , Whose beauties or faults , whichsoever you ...
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... question of slavery or freedom to the adjudication of chance , I did myself indite a short fable or apologue after the manner of Gay and Prior , to the end that he might see how easily even such subjects as he treated of were capable of ...
... question of slavery or freedom to the adjudication of chance , I did myself indite a short fable or apologue after the manner of Gay and Prior , to the end that he might see how easily even such subjects as he treated of were capable of ...
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Seite 171 - GUVENER B. is a sensible man; He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks; He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes; — But John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My! aint it terrible? Wut shall we du? We can't never choose him, o...
Seite 60 - T is as if a rough oak that for ages had stood, With his gnarled bony branches like ribs of the wood, Should bloom, after cycles of struggle and scathe, With a single anemone trembly and rathe...
Seite 150 - Freedom's airy Tell they're pupple in the face, — It's a grand gret cemetary Per 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 104 - 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 171 - An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes : But John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My ! ain't it terrible ? Wut shall we du ? We can't never choose him, o' course — thet 's flat ; Guess we shall hev to come round (don't you.
Seite 44 - C. labors to get at the centre, and then Take a reckoning from there of his actions and men ; E. calmly assumes the said centre as granted, And, given himself, has whatever is wanted.
Seite 172 - Polk, you know, he is our country. An' the angel thet writes all our sins in a book Puts the debit to him, an' to us the per contry; An' John P. Robinson he Sez this is his view o
Seite 72 - Why, there is not a bard at this moment alive More willing than he that his fellows should thrive; While you are abusing him thus, even now He would help either one of you out of a slough; You may say that...
Seite 81 - There's Holmes, who is matchless among you for wit ; A Leyden-jar always full-charged, from which flit The electrical tingles of hit after hit ; In long poems...
Seite 105 - He stood a spell on one foot fust, Then stood a spell on t'other, An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha