The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: PoemsPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1896 |
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... presents itself to him , uncombed , shaggy , careless of the " nicer proprieties , " inexpert of " ele- gant 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 , careless of the " nicer proprieties , " inexpert of " ele- gant 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 , far is clear enough , even to eyes peering myopic through horn - lensed editorial spectacles , — but naught farther ? O purblind , well ...
... presents himself as a quite inexplicable Sphinx - riddle . A rich poverty of Latin and Greek , far is clear enough , even to eyes peering myopic through horn - lensed editorial spectacles , — but naught farther ? O purblind , well ...
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... present that emi- nent 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 ...
... present that emi- nent 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 ...
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... presents itself here in the New World ; and , indeed , wherever a language is alive , it grows . It might be questioned whether we could not establish a stronger title to the ownership of the English tongue than the mother - island- ers ...
... presents itself here in the New World ; and , indeed , wherever a language is alive , it grows . It might be questioned whether we could not establish a stronger title to the ownership of the English tongue than the mother - island- ers ...
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... present volume . In this place I will barely remark , that I have sometimes noticed in the unlan- guaged prattlings of infants a fondness for alliteration , asso- nance , 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 unlan- guaged prattlings of infants a fondness for alliteration , asso- nance , and even rhyme , in which natural predisposition we may trace the ...
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Page 78 - 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.
Page 10 - 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.
Page 212 - An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'. 'T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur, A dogrose blushin' to a brook Ain't modester nor sweeter. He was six foot o...
Page 11 - An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha' told ye nuther. Says he, "I'd better call agin," Says she, "Think likely, Mister;" Thet last word pricked him like a pin, An' — wal, he up an
Page 66 - An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes; But John P. Robinson he Sez he wun't vote fer Guvener B. My ! ain't it terrible? Wut shall we du? We can't never choose him o...
Page 274 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Page 46 - 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
Page 103 - Thet bombshells, grape, an' powder 'n' ball Air good-will's strongest magnets, Thet peace, to make it stick at all, Must be druv in with bagnets. In short, I firmly du believe In Humbug generally, Fer it 'aa thing thet I perceive To hev a solid vally ; This heth my faithful shepherd ben, In pasturs sweet heth led me, An' this '11 keep the people green To feed ez they hev fed me.
Page 273 - Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge. If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching, folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
Page 245 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...