The Writings of James Russell Lowell ...: Literary essaysPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1890 - 330 páginas |
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The Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary essays James Russell Lowell Visualização integral - 1890 |
The Writings of James Russell Lowell: Literary essays James Russell Lowell Visualização integral - 1890 |
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Página 224 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 16 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Página 45 - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed...
Página 298 - From Paul's I went, to Eton sent, To learn straightways the Latin phrase, Where fifty-three stripes given to me At once I had. For fault but small, or none at all, It came to pass thus beat I was; See, Udal, see the mercy of thee To me, poor lad.
Página 243 - For every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action...
Página 15 - ... to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers...
Página 249 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Página 42 - Moores, which wilbe more gaynefull pilladge for us than wee conceive, for I doe not see how wee can thrive untill wee gett into a stock of slaves sufficient to doe all our...
Página 364 - That he was cold and very chill: His face was gloom, his heart was sorrow, Alas! that day for Harry Gill! That day he wore a...
Página 326 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.