Life of James Russell LowellD. Lothrop Company, 1887 - 321 pages |
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... youth and animal spirits uncorked , the sedater girls in confidential twos and threes descanting secrets out of the mouth of one cape - bonnet into that of another . Times have changed since the jackets and trousers used to - ― But C S ...
... youth and animal spirits uncorked , the sedater girls in confidential twos and threes descanting secrets out of the mouth of one cape - bonnet into that of another . Times have changed since the jackets and trousers used to - ― But C S ...
Page 33
... youth , love , friendship , hope , of everything but immiti- gable eld . " - Looking back upon his college days at Harvard , Lowell pays the following tribute to President Quincy : " Almost everybody looks back regretfully to the days ...
... youth , love , friendship , hope , of everything but immiti- gable eld . " - Looking back upon his college days at Harvard , Lowell pays the following tribute to President Quincy : " Almost everybody looks back regretfully to the days ...
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... youth in building a vessel for our voyage of life , and set forth with streamers flying ; but the moment we come nigh the great loadstone mount- ain of our proper destiny , out leap all our carefully driven bolts and nails , and we get ...
... youth in building a vessel for our voyage of life , and set forth with streamers flying ; but the moment we come nigh the great loadstone mount- ain of our proper destiny , out leap all our carefully driven bolts and nails , and we get ...
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... youth of parts ( though I have seen verses of his which I could never rightly understand ) ; and if he be such , he , I am certain , as well as I , would be free from any proclivity to appropriate to himself whatever of credit ( or ...
... youth of parts ( though I have seen verses of his which I could never rightly understand ) ; and if he be such , he , I am certain , as well as I , would be free from any proclivity to appropriate to himself whatever of credit ( or ...
Page 109
... youth too naturally transfers the epithet of dead from the languages to the authors that wrote in them . " What concern have we with the shades of dialect in Homer or Theocritus , provided they speak the spiritual lingua franca that ...
... youth too naturally transfers the epithet of dead from the languages to the authors that wrote in them . " What concern have we with the shades of dialect in Homer or Theocritus , provided they speak the spiritual lingua franca that ...
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Page 64 - Lo, it is I, be not afraid In many climes, without avail, Thou hast spent thy life for the Holy Grail; Behold, it is here, — this cup which thou Didst fill at the streamlet for me but now; This crust is my body broken for thee; This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor,...
Page 176 - If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked ! If to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know, is damned : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord ; Banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins : but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company ; banish...
Page 57 - And still fluttered down the snow. I stood and watched by the window The noiseless work of the sky, And the sudden flurries of snow-birds, Like brown leaves whirling by.
Page 63 - OVER his keys the musing organist, Beginning doubtfully and far away, First lets his fingers wander as they list, And builds a bridge from Dreamland for his lay : Then, as the touch of his loved instrument Gives hope and fervor, nearer draws his theme, First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent Along the wavering vista of his dream.
Page 95 - Life," he said ; And, ere I answered, passing out of sight, On his celestial embassy he sped. 'Twas at thy door, O friend, and not at mine, The angel with the amaranthine wreath, Pausing, descended ; and, with voice divine, Whispered a word, that had a sound like Death. Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom— A shadow on those features fair and thin : And softly, from that hushed and darkened room, Two angels issued, where but one went in.
Page 129 - An' gives one leap from Aperl into June: Then all comes crowdin' in; afore you think, Young oak-leaves mist the side-hill woods with pink; The catbird in the laylock-bush is loud; The orchards turn to heaps o' rosy cloud ; Red-cedars blossom tu, though few folks know it, An' look all dipt in sunshine like a poet; The lime-trees pile their solid stacks o' shade An' drows'ly simmer with the bees...
Page 246 - And some there be, which have no memorial; who are perished, as though they had never been; and are become as though they had never been born; and their children after them.
Page 246 - LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN, AND OUR FATHERS THAT BEgat us. The Lord hath wrought great glory by them through his great power from the beginning. Such as did bear rule in their kingdoms, men renowned for their power, giving counsel by their understanding, and declaring prophecies: leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions...
Page 138 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old- World moulds aside she threw, And choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Page 139 - Bow down, dear Land, for thou hast found release! Thy God, in these distempered days, Hath taught thee the sure wisdom of His ways, And through thine enemies hath wrought thy peace ! Bow down in prayer and praise ! No poorest in thy borders but may now Lift to the juster skies a man's enfranchised brow.