The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...Ticknor and Fields, 1866 |
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... thing that the reader's first fancy may strike , an old - fashioned title - page , such as presents a tabular view of the volume's contents ) A GLANCE AT A FEW OF OUR LITERARY PROGENIES ( Mrs. Malaprop's word ) FROM THE TUB OF DIOGENES ...
... thing that the reader's first fancy may strike , an old - fashioned title - page , such as presents a tabular view of the volume's contents ) A GLANCE AT A FEW OF OUR LITERARY PROGENIES ( Mrs. Malaprop's word ) FROM THE TUB OF DIOGENES ...
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... thing , rhyme - ywinged , with a sting in its tail . But , by addings and alterings not previously planned , - digressions chance - hatched , like birds ' eggs in the sand , —and dawdlings to suit every whimsy's de- mand , ( always ...
... thing , rhyme - ywinged , with a sting in its tail . But , by addings and alterings not previously planned , - digressions chance - hatched , like birds ' eggs in the sand , —and dawdlings to suit every whimsy's de- mand , ( always ...
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... thing which an author , unless he be wealthy and willing to pay for that kind of de- light , is not , in all instances , called on to write . Though there are , it is said , who , their spirits to cheer , slip in a new title - page ...
... thing which an author , unless he be wealthy and willing to pay for that kind of de- light , is not , in all instances , called on to write . Though there are , it is said , who , their spirits to cheer , slip in a new title - page ...
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... in some kinds of strata , ( only these made things crookeder . ) Fancy an heir , that a father had seen born well - featured and fair , turning suddenly wry - nosed , club - footed , VOL . II . 2 squint - eyed , hare - lipped , wapper - 17.
... in some kinds of strata , ( only these made things crookeder . ) Fancy an heir , that a father had seen born well - featured and fair , turning suddenly wry - nosed , club - footed , VOL . II . 2 squint - eyed , hare - lipped , wapper - 17.
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... thing that will live and will die a log , - Not to say that the thought would forever intrude That you've less chance to win her the more she is wood ? Ah ! it went to my heart , and the memory still grieves , To see those loved graces ...
... thing that will live and will die a log , - Not to say that the thought would forever intrude That you've less chance to win her the more she is wood ? Ah ! it went to my heart , and the memory still grieves , To see those loved graces ...
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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