The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...: Complete in Two Volumes, Band 2Ticknor and Fields, 1863 |
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... 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 FABLE FOR CRITICS .
... 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 FABLE FOR CRITICS .
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... present , I shudder to tell o't , Is that you have your slaves , and the Greek had his helot . " . Here a gentleman present , who had in his attic More pepper than brains , shrieked- " The man's a fanatic , I'm a capital tailor with ...
... present , I shudder to tell o't , Is that you have your slaves , and the Greek had his helot . " . Here a gentleman present , who had in his attic More pepper than brains , shrieked- " The man's a fanatic , I'm a capital tailor with ...
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... present that eminent man with a copy of the " Biglow Papers . " The next morning he received the following note , which he has kindly furnished us for publication . We prefer to print it verbatim , knowing that our readers will readily ...
... present that eminent man with a copy of the " Biglow Papers . " The next morning he received the following note , which he has kindly furnished us for publication . We prefer to print it verbatim , knowing that our readers will readily ...
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... present Yankee , full of expedients , half - master of all trades , inven- tive in all but the beautiful , full of shifts , not yet capable of comfort , armed at all points against the old enemy Hanger , longanimous , good at patching ...
... present Yankee , full of expedients , half - master of all trades , inven- tive in all but the beautiful , full of shifts , not yet capable of comfort , armed at all points against the old enemy Hanger , longanimous , good at patching ...
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... present volume . In this place I will barely remark , that I have sometimes noticed in the unlanguaged prattlings of infants a fond- ness for alliteration , assonance , and even rhyme , in which natural predisposition we may trace the ...
... present volume . In this place I will barely remark , that I have sometimes noticed in the unlanguaged prattlings of infants a fond- ness for alliteration , assonance , and even rhyme , in which natural predisposition we may trace the ...
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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 - 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 152 - S jest to make him fill its pus. Want to tackle me in, du ye? I expect you'll hev to wait; Wen cold lead puts daylight thru ye You'll begin to kal'late; S'pose the crows wun't fall to pickin' All the carkiss from your bones, Coz you helped to give a lickin' To them poor half-Spanish drones? Jest go home an...
Seite 184 - 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 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 ; His strength is so tender, his...
Seite 105 - An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Parin
Seite 61 - I'd lay any bet that, without ever quitting Their box, they'd be all, to a man, for acquitting. He has drawn you one character, though, that is new, One wildflower he's plucked that is wet with the dew Of this fresh Western world...
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 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 151 - 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