 There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together 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...  The Living Age - Page 3931875Full view - About this book
 | James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 330 pages
...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 singjf g and preaching ; His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half... | |
 | 1873 - 914 pages
...shoulders. The top of the hill he will ne'er come nlghreachIng, Till he learns the distinction 'twlxt singing and preaching : His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, Bnt he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And ratUe away till he's old as Methnsalem, At the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 pages
...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...lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he 'i! rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he 's old as Methusalem, At the... | |
 | 1874 - 532 pages
...criticism could deal more justly with his own defects than he has done himself when he says that — " The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching,...lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he 'd rather by half make a drum of the shell ! " Years went on, however, and the political crisis... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pages
...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...lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, A FABLE FOR CRITICS. 147 But he 'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pages
...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...and preaching ; His lyre has some chords that would 146 A FABLE FOR CRITICS. But he 'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1894 - 548 pages
...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,...learns the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching.' And he writes many years afterwards : ' I shall never be a poet till I get out of the pulpit, and New... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...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...and preaching ; His lyre has some chords that would 146 A FABLE FOR CRITICS. But he 'd rather l>y half make a drum of the shell, And rattle nxvay till... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 474 pages
...ready wit, the characteristics of the writers of the day, not forgetting himself in these lines : — The top of the hill he will ne'.er come nigh reaching...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... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 596 pages
...ready wit, the characteristics of the writers of the day, not forgetting himself in these lines : — The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching Till he learns the distinction twixt sinking and preaching; His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well But he M rather by half... | |
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