The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...: Complete in Two Volumes, Том 2 |
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the calf , and my neighbors , like hers , no doubt , wonder and laugh , and when , my strained arms with their grown burthen full , I call it my Fable , they call it a bull . Having scrawled at full gallop ( as far as that goes ) in a ...
the calf , and my neighbors , like hers , no doubt , wonder and laugh , and when , my strained arms with their grown burthen full , I call it my Fable , they call it a bull . Having scrawled at full gallop ( as far as that goes ) in a ...
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... in the shade of his mistress , As dull as a volume of old Chester mysteries , Or as those puzzling specimens , which , in old histories , We read of his verses — the Oracles , namely ,( I wonder the Greeks should have swallowed them ...
... in the shade of his mistress , As dull as a volume of old Chester mysteries , Or as those puzzling specimens , which , in old histories , We read of his verses — the Oracles , namely ,( I wonder the Greeks should have swallowed them ...
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... When they send him a dishfull , and ask him to try ' em , He never suspects how the sly rogues came by ' em ; He wonders why ' tis there are none such his trees on , And thinks ' em the best he has tasted this season .
... When they send him a dishfull , and ask him to try ' em , He never suspects how the sly rogues came by ' em ; He wonders why ' tis there are none such his trees on , And thinks ' em the best he has tasted this season .
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... She will swallow a wonder by mere might and main And thinks it geometry's fault if she's fain To consider things flat , inasmuch as they're plain ; Facts with her are accomplished , as Frenchmen would say , They will prove all she ...
... She will swallow a wonder by mere might and main And thinks it geometry's fault if she's fain To consider things flat , inasmuch as they're plain ; Facts with her are accomplished , as Frenchmen would say , They will prove all she ...
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Daughter of Danaus , who could daily pour In treacherous pipkins her Pierian store , She , ' mid the volleyed learning firm and calm , Patted the furloughed ferule on her palm , And , to our wonder , could divine at once INTRODUCTION .
Daughter of Danaus , who could daily pour In treacherous pipkins her Pierian store , She , ' mid the volleyed learning firm and calm , Patted the furloughed ferule on her palm , And , to our wonder , could divine at once INTRODUCTION .
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