The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...Ticknor and Fields, 1866 |
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... 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 ; A VOCAL AND MUSICAL MEDLEY , THAT IS , A SERIES OF JOKES By A Wonderful Quiz , who ...
... 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 ; A VOCAL AND MUSICAL MEDLEY , THAT IS , A SERIES OF JOKES By A Wonderful Quiz , who ...
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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 warm ...
... 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 warm ...
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... presents itself to him , uncombed , shaggy , care- less of the " nicer proprieties , " inexpert of " elegant diction , " yet with voice audible enough to whoso hath ears , up there on the gravelly side - hills , or down on the splashy ...
... presents itself to him , uncombed , shaggy , care- less of the " nicer proprieties , " inexpert of " elegant diction , " yet with voice audible enough to whoso hath ears , up there on the gravelly side - hills , or down on the splashy ...
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... presents himself as a quite inexplicable Sphinx - riddle . A rich poverty of Latin and Greek , -so far is clear enough , even to eyes peering myopic through horn - lensed editorial specta- cles , but naught farther ? O purblind , well ...
... presents himself as a quite inexplicable Sphinx - riddle . A rich poverty of Latin and Greek , -so far is clear enough , even to eyes peering myopic through horn - lensed editorial specta- cles , but naught farther ? O purblind , well ...
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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