The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...: Complete in Two Volumes, Том 2Ticknor and Fields, 1863 |
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... never precisely unkind , The defect in his brain was just absence of mind ; If he boasted , ' twas simply that he was self - made , A position which I , for one , never gainsaid , My respect for my Maker supposing a skill In his works ...
... never precisely unkind , The defect in his brain was just absence of mind ; If he boasted , ' twas simply that he was self - made , A position which I , for one , never gainsaid , My respect for my Maker supposing a skill In his works ...
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... never grew tender , Sitting after a ball , with his feet on the fender , Shaping somebody's sweet features out of cigar smoke , ( Though he'd willingly grant you that such doings are smoke ; ) All women he damns with mutabile semper ...
... never grew tender , Sitting after a ball , with his feet on the fender , Shaping somebody's sweet features out of cigar smoke , ( Though he'd willingly grant you that such doings are smoke ; ) All women he damns with mutabile semper ...
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... never be read Save by readers of proofs , forced to do it for bread , - Such books as one's wrecked on in small country- taverns , Such as hermits might mortify over in caverns , Such as Satan , if printing had then been invented , As ...
... never be read Save by readers of proofs , forced to do it for bread , - Such books as one's wrecked on in small country- taverns , Such as hermits might mortify over in caverns , Such as Satan , if printing had then been invented , As ...
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... never a doorway to get in a god . ' Tis refreshing to old - fashioned people like me , To meet such a primitive Pagan as he , In whose mind all creation is duly respected As parts of himself - just a little projected ; And who's willing ...
... never a doorway to get in a god . ' Tis refreshing to old - fashioned people like me , To meet such a primitive Pagan as he , In whose mind all creation is duly respected As parts of himself - just a little projected ; And who's willing ...
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... never would catch ' em , His Hesperides have no rude dragon to watch ' em ; 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 ...
... never would catch ' em , His Hesperides have no rude dragon to watch ' em ; 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 ...
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