 ... with rhyme, He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching ; His lyre has...  The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Página 152por James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 453 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1900 - 968 páginas
...distinction 'twixt singing and preaching; His lyre lias some chords that would ring pretty well, But he 'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he 'a old as Methusalem, At the head of a inarch to the last new Jerusalem. FROM "THE BIGLOW PAPERS" WHAT... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1900 - 188 páginas
...isms tied together with rhyuie. . . . His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem At the head of a march to the last New Jerusalem. " With regard to the comparison... | |
 | Charles Frederick Johnson - 1900 - 564 páginas
...distinction 'twixt singing and preaching ; His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the last new Jerusalem." From the " Fable for Critics... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1901 - 964 páginas
...distinction 'twixt singing and preaching; His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he 'd tread The herbage of your grave ; Nor shallyour glory...be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor p inarch to the last new Jerusalem. FROM "THE BIGLOW PAPERS" WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS GCVENER B. is a... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1904 - 758 páginas
...would ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the last new Jerusalem. —LOWELL, JAMES RUSSELL, 1848, A Fable /or Critics. We must declare it, though to the grief of some... | |
 | Olaf Morgan Norlie - 1901 - 564 páginas
...distinction 'twixt singing and preaching; His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty v/ell, But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he's as old as Methusalem, At the head of a r.arch to the last new Jerusalem." The superiority of imaginative... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - 1902 - 506 páginas
...bale of isms tied together with rhyme. His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he 'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle...'s old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the New Jerusalem." But this was always some city of God, and the verse which he wrote on the way or beneath... | |
 | Lorenzo Sears - 1902 - 506 páginas
...bale of isms tied together with rhyme. His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he 'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he 'a old aa Methusalem, At the head of a march to the New Jerusalem." But this was always some city of... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - 1903 - 448 páginas
...just the fine hands, too, to weave you a lyric Full of fancy, fine feeling, or spiced with satyric. There goes Halleck, whose Fanny 'sa pseudo Don Juan,...the wickedness out that gave salt to the true one. More than this, he 'sa very great poet, I am told, And has had his works published in crimson and gold.... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1903 - 600 páginas
...distinction 'twixt singing and preaching; His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the last New Jerusalem." The poem is loose in construction... | |
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