The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: PoemsPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1892 |
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... common schools . . . . Mr. Wilbur has per- formed his duties as editor with excellent taste and judgment . This is a vein which we hope to see successfully pros- ecuted . . . . We hail the appearance of this work as a long stride toward ...
... common schools . . . . Mr. Wilbur has per- formed his duties as editor with excellent taste and judgment . This is a vein which we hope to see successfully pros- ecuted . . . . We hail the appearance of this work as a long stride toward ...
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... common ) at demoralizing the public sentiment . Under a wretched mask of stupid drollery , slavery , war , the social glass , and , in short , all the valuable and time - honored insti- tutions justly dear to our common humanity and ...
... common ) at demoralizing the public sentiment . Under a wretched mask of stupid drollery , slavery , war , the social glass , and , in short , all the valuable and time - honored insti- tutions justly dear to our common humanity and ...
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... common in our own immediate neighborhood . Yet , with a becoming deference to the popular belief that distinctions of this sort are enhanced in value by every additional mile they travel , I have intermixed the names of some tolerably ...
... common in our own immediate neighborhood . Yet , with a becoming deference to the popular belief that distinctions of this sort are enhanced in value by every additional mile they travel , I have intermixed the names of some tolerably ...
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... common . The two in principles and habits Were different as rats from rabbits ; Stout Farmer North , with frugal care , Laid up provision for his heir , Not scorning with hard sun - browned hands To scrape acquaintance with his lands ...
... common . The two in principles and habits Were different as rats from rabbits ; Stout Farmer North , with frugal care , Laid up provision for his heir , Not scorning with hard sun - browned hands To scrape acquaintance with his lands ...
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... English vocabularies as archaic , the greater part of which were in common use about the time of the King James translation of the Bible . Shake- speare stands less in need of a glossary to most 36 THE BIGLOW PAPERS INTRODUCTION 17 21.
... English vocabularies as archaic , the greater part of which were in common use about the time of the King James translation of the Bible . Shake- speare stands less in need of a glossary to most 36 THE BIGLOW PAPERS INTRODUCTION 17 21.
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Страница 214 - em slips, Huldy sot pale ez ashes, All kin* o' smily roun' the lips An' teary roun' the lashes. For she was jes' the quiet kind Whose naturs never vary, Like streams that keep a summer mind Snowhid in Jenooary. The blood clost roun...
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Страница 46 - Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It 's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
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Страница 67 - An' thet all this big talk of our destinies Is half on it ign'ance, an' t' other half rum ; But John P. Robinson he Sez it aint no sech thing; an', of course, so must we. Parson Wilbur sez he never heerd in his life Thet th' Apostles rigged out in their swaller-tail coats, An' marched round in front of a drum an' a fife, To git some on 'em office, an' some on 'em votes ; But John P.
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