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James Russell Lowell, Among my books 6 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), Border war, as seen and experienced by the inhabitants of Chambersburgh, Pa. (search)
ake A correct catalogue of their stock; Such things as they wanted were all they would take, And the balance erase from the book; Except whatever the men might find To tickle the fancy or please the mind.” Thus pleasantly chatting, when all was “took down,” He looked at the bills and bought out the town. Still Jenkins had terrible griefs to bear, And as Jenkinses never were known to swear, He affirmed: “He'd be d — d if he'd stand 'em.” And so he launched forth in a speech at the rate Of Phoebus's horses when Phaeton sate On the box and drove ‘em tandem. “In a peaceable way he had entered the town, Yet we had a hostile spirit shown ;” If he had said “horse steal” to me it appears, The kettle had had the pot by the ears-- “Had stolen his horses and tried to shoot down His men in a charge inoffensively made, Which greatly displeased his entire brigade; Who swore that unless we paid all their losses, Or begging their pardon returned them their losses, The d — d l
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Greek goddesses. (search)
d Persephone; and through them this relation is glorified, as wifehood becomes sublime in Hera, love in Aphrodite, and maidenhood, active or contemplative, in Artemis and Athena. But besides these five attitudes of woman as girl, maiden, lover, wife, and mother, there must be finally one which shall comprise all of these, and may outlast them all. Hestia, or Vesta, is the sister of Zeus, but not his wife like Hera, nor his symbolical mistress like Demeter; nay, when sought in marriage by Phoebus and Poseidon, she has sworn by the head of Zeus to be a virgin forever. She represents woman as queen of home. Houses are her invention. No separate temple is built to her, for every hearth is her altar; no special sacrifices are offered, for she has the first share of every sacrifice. Every time the household meets before the hearth, she is named, and the meal becomes thereby an act of worship. Every in-door oath must be sworn by her. The worst criminal who enters the house and touche
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Spenser (search)
lin. In Milton's Lycidas there are reminiscences of this eclogue as well as of that for May. The latter are the more evident, but I think that Spenser's Cuddie, the praise is better than the price, suggested Milton's But not the praise, Phoebus replied, and touched my trembling ears. Shakespeare had read and remembered this pastoral. Compare But, ah, Mecaenas is yclad in clay, And great Augustus long ago is dead, And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead, with King Pandion, heeam behind the steadfast star That was in ocean's waves yet never wet, But firm is fixt and sendeth light from far To all that in the wide deep wandering are; or this? At last the golden oriental gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fair, And Phoebus, fresh as bridegroom to his mate, Came dancing forth, shaking his dewy hair And hurls his glistening beams through dewy air. The generous indefiniteness, which treats an hour more or less as of no account, is in keeping with that sense of endles
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Milton. (search)
truth whereof I was persuaded and whereof I had declared myself openly to be the partaker. Apology for Smectymnuus. Accordingly it does not so much seem that he is the advocate of Puritanism, Freedom of Conscience, or the People of England, as that all these are he, and that he is speaking for himself. He was not nice in the choice of his missiles, and too often borrows a dirty lump from the dunghill of Luther; but now and then the gnarled sticks of controversy turn to golden arrows of Phoebus in his trembling hands, singing as they fly and carrying their messages of doom in music. Then, truly, in his prose as in his verse, his is the large utterance of the early gods, and there is that in him which tramples all learning under his victorious feet. From the first he looked upon himself as a man dedicated and set apart. He had that sublime persuasion of a divine mission which sometimes lifts his speech from personal to cosmopolitan significance; his genius unmistakably asserts i
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Margaret Smith's Journal (search)
a worthy gentleman and a true friend to the liberties of the Colony; and he asked Rebecca to read some ingenious verses writ by him in one of his almanacs, which she had copied not long ago, wherein he compareth New England to a goodly tree or plant. Whereupon, Rebecca read them as followeth: A skilful husbandman he was, who brought This matchless plant from far, and here hath sought A place to set it ill; and for its sake The wilderness a pleasant land doth make. With pleasant aspect, Phoebus smiles upon The tender buds and blooms that hang thereon; At this tree's root Astrea sits and sings, And waters it, whence upright Justice springs, Which yearly shoots forth laws and liberties That no man's will or wit may tyrannize. Those birds of prey that sometime have oppressed And stained the country with their filthy nest, Justice abhors, and one day hopes to find A way to make all promise-breakers grind. On this tree's top hangs pleasant Liberty, Not seen in Austria, France, Spain, I