The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...Ticknor and Fields, 1866 |
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... butter both sides of my bread , for I never could see that an author owed aught to the people he solaced , diverted , or taught ; and , as for mere fame , I have long ago learned that the persons by whom it is finally earned ,
... butter both sides of my bread , for I never could see that an author owed aught to the people he solaced , diverted , or taught ; and , as for mere fame , I have long ago learned that the persons by whom it is finally earned ,
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... side , as we walked along chatting and joking together , would not be my way . I can hardly tell whether a ques tion will ever arise in which he and I should by any strange fortune agree , but meanwhile my esteem for him grows as I know ...
... side , as we walked along chatting and joking together , would not be my way . I can hardly tell whether a ques tion will ever arise in which he and I should by any strange fortune agree , but meanwhile my esteem for him grows as I know ...
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James Russell Lowell. some folk , but the minute the game changes sides and the others begin it , they see something savage and horrible in it . As for me I respect neither women or men for their gender , nor own any sex in a pen . I ...
James Russell Lowell. some folk , but the minute the game changes sides and the others begin it , they see something savage and horrible in it . As for me I respect neither women or men for their gender , nor own any sex in a pen . I ...
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... side the mill One expends on the paper his labor and skill ; ) So , when his soul waited a new transmigration , And Destiny balanced ' twixt this and that station , Not having much time to expend upon bothers , Remembering he'd had some ...
... side the mill One expends on the paper his labor and skill ; ) So , when his soul waited a new transmigration , And Destiny balanced ' twixt this and that station , Not having much time to expend upon bothers , Remembering he'd had some ...
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... side the water , ' tis prudent to pull O'er the eyes of the public their national wool , By accusing of slavish respect to John Bull , All American authors who have more or less Of that anti - American humbug - success , While in ...
... side the water , ' tis prudent to pull O'er the eyes of the public their national wool , By accusing of slavish respect to John Bull , All American authors who have more or less Of that anti - American humbug - success , While in ...
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Страница 90 - Nature fits all her children with something to do, He who would write and can't write can surely review, Can set up a small booth as critic and sell us his Petty conceit and his pettier jealousies ; Thus a lawyer's apprentice, just out of his teens, Will do for the Jeffrey of six magazines ; Having read Johnson's lives of the poets half through...
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Страница 71 - Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge, Who talks like a book of iambs and pentameters, In a way to make people of common sense damn metres, Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, But the heart somehow seems all squeezed out by the mind, Who — But hey-day!
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