The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...: Complete in Two Volumes, Том 2 |
Из књиге
Резултати 1-5 од 30
Страница 11
... rather free , and drawn from a Mephistophelian stand - point , are meant to be faithful , and that is the grand point , and none but an owl would feel sore at a rub from a jester who tells you , without any subterfuge , that he sits ...
... rather free , and drawn from a Mephistophelian stand - point , are meant to be faithful , and that is the grand point , and none but an owl would feel sore at a rub from a jester who tells you , without any subterfuge , that he sits ...
Страница 18
In the edition now issued , no pains are neglected , and my verses , as orators say , ' stand corrected . Yet some blunders remain of the public's own make , which I wish to correct for my personal sake . For instance , a character ...
In the edition now issued , no pains are neglected , and my verses , as orators say , ' stand corrected . Yet some blunders remain of the public's own make , which I wish to correct for my personal sake . For instance , a character ...
Страница 39
66 The most thankless of gods you must surely have thought me , For this is the forty - fourth copy you've brought me , I have given them away , or at least I have tried , But I've forty - two left , standing all side by side ...
66 The most thankless of gods you must surely have thought me , For this is the forty - fourth copy you've brought me , I have given them away , or at least I have tried , But I've forty - two left , standing all side by side ...
Страница 40
... whose judgments are stored For such as take steps in despite of his word , Should look with delight on the agonized prancing Of a wretch who has not the least ground for his dancing , While the State , standing by , sings a verse ...
... whose judgments are stored For such as take steps in despite of his word , Should look with delight on the agonized prancing Of a wretch who has not the least ground for his dancing , While the State , standing by , sings a verse ...
Страница 46
... He lays the denier away on the shelf , And then -- down beside him lies gravely himself . He's the Salt River boatman , who always stands willing To convey friend or foe without charging a shilling , 46 A FABLE FOR CRITICS .
... He lays the denier away on the shelf , And then -- down beside him lies gravely himself . He's the Salt River boatman , who always stands willing To convey friend or foe without charging a shilling , 46 A FABLE FOR CRITICS .
Шта други кажу - Напишите рецензију
Нисмо пронашли ниједну рецензију на уобичајеним местима.
Друга издања - Прикажи све
Чести термини и фразе
agin aint believe Biglow brain clear comes common critic don't door doubt ears fact father feel feller fire folks gave give half hand hard head hear heart hope human jest John keep kind Knott land leave less letters live look matter mean mind natural never night North on't once perhaps person Poems poet poor present question reader round safe seemed side sometimes sort soul sound South speak spirits stand sure talk tell there's thet thet's thing thought took true truth turn twas verse whole wish wonder write young
Популарни одломци
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 105 - An' yit she gin her cheer a jerk Ez though she wished him furder, An' on her apples kep' to work, Parin
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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