The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...Ticknor and Fields, 1866 |
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... truth I am making fun at them or with them . So the excellent Public is hereby assured that the sale of my book is already secured . For there is not a poet throughout the whole land , but will purchase a copy or two out of hand , in ...
... truth I am making fun at them or with them . So the excellent Public is hereby assured that the sale of my book is already secured . For there is not a poet throughout the whole land , but will purchase a copy or two out of hand , in ...
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... truth . In reading these lines , you perhaps have a vision of a person in pretty good health and condition , and yet , since I put forth my primary edition , I have been crushed , scorched , withered , used up and put down , ( by Smith ...
... truth . In reading these lines , you perhaps have a vision of a person in pretty good health and condition , and yet , since I put forth my primary edition , I have been crushed , scorched , withered , used up and put down , ( by Smith ...
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... truth out of Nature's old granite , 4 New and old at their birth , like Le Verrier's planet , Which , to get a true judgment , themselves must create In the soul of their critic the measure and weight , Being rather themselves a fresh ...
... truth out of Nature's old granite , 4 New and old at their birth , like Le Verrier's planet , Which , to get a true judgment , themselves must create In the soul of their critic the measure and weight , Being rather themselves a fresh ...
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... truth in his strictures ; And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think , And , when he has thought , be his cause strong or weak , Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak , 62 A ...
... truth in his strictures ; And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think , And , when he has thought , be his cause strong or weak , Will risk t'other half for the freedom to speak , 62 A ...
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... truths you Americans need to be told , And it never'll refute them to swagger and scold John Bull , looking o'er the ... truth told you in print ; The most of you ( this is what strikes all beholders ) Have a mental and physical stoop in ...
... truths you Americans need to be told , And it never'll refute them to swagger and scold John Bull , looking o'er the ... truth told you in print ; The most of you ( this is what strikes all beholders ) Have a mental and physical stoop in ...
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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