The poetical works of James R. Lowell, Band 2Ticknor and Fields., 1858 |
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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 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 , 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 , 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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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 ; His strength is so tender, his...
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 55 - Let his mind once get head in its favorite direction And the torrent of verse bursts the dams of reflection, While, borne with the rush of the metre along, The poet may chance to go right or go wrong, Content with the whirl and delirium of song; Then his grammar's not always correct, nor his rhymes, And he 's prone to repeat his own lyrics sometimes...
Seite 60 - When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So. to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared, .And she could not have hit a more excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man.
Seite 77 - What! Irving? thrice welcome, warm heart and fine brain, You bring back the happiest spirit from Spain, And the gravest sweet humor, that ever were there Since Cervantes met death in his gentle despair; Nay, don't be embarrassed, nor look so beseeching, I shan't run directly against my own preaching, And, having just laughed at their Raphaels and Dantes, Go to setting you up beside matchless Cervantes; But allow me to speak what I honestly feel,— To a true...
Seite 208 - Ez long ez, like a lumberman, I git jest wut I axes; I go free-trade thru thick an' thin, Because it kind o' rouses The folks to vote, — an' keeps us in Our quiet custom-houses.
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
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 209 - I du in interest. I du believe in bein' this Or thet, ez it may happen One way or t' other hendiest is To ketch the people nappin' ; It aint by princerples nor men My preudunt course is steadied, — I scent wich pays the best, an