The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...: Complete in Two Volumes, Том 2 |
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And for mercy's sake , how could one keep up a dialogue With a dull wooden thing that will live and will die a log , Not to say that the thought would forever intrude That you've less chance to win her the more she is wood ?
And for mercy's sake , how could one keep up a dialogue With a dull wooden thing that will live and will die a log , Not to say that the thought would forever intrude That you've less chance to win her the more she is wood ?
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Now there happened to be among Phæbus's followers , A gentleman , one of the omnivorous swallowers , Who bolt every book that comes out of the press , Without the least question of larger or less , Whose stomachs are strong at the ...
Now there happened to be among Phæbus's followers , A gentleman , one of the omnivorous swallowers , Who bolt every book that comes out of the press , Without the least question of larger or less , Whose stomachs are strong at the ...
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and the authors all ran : come , And once , when these purgatives acted with less spirit , And the desperate case asked a remedy desperate , He drew from his pocket a foolscap epistle , As calmly as if ' twere a nine - barrelled pistol ...
and the authors all ran : come , And once , when these purgatives acted with less spirit , And the desperate case asked a remedy desperate , He drew from his pocket a foolscap epistle , As calmly as if ' twere a nine - barrelled pistol ...
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... All American authors who have more or less Of that anti - American humbug - success , While in private we're always embracing the knees Of some twopenny editor over the seas , And licking his critical shoes , for you know ' tis The ...
... All American authors who have more or less Of that anti - American humbug - success , While in private we're always embracing the knees Of some twopenny editor over the seas , And licking his critical shoes , for you know ' tis The ...
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... strait - jacket put on The heart which strives vainly to burst off a button ,A brain which , without being slow or mechanic , Does more than a larger less drilled , more volcanic ; He's a Cowper condensed , with no craziness bitten ...
... strait - jacket put on The heart which strives vainly to burst off a button ,A brain which , without being slow or mechanic , Does more than a larger less drilled , more volcanic ; He's a Cowper condensed , with no craziness bitten ...
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