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 - 1896 - 108 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 'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he 's old as Methusalem, At the... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 528 pages
...get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, Bnt 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, Bnt he 'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he ' . old as Methusalem, At... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 528 pages
...get on alone, spite of brambles and bonlders, 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 rim: pretty well, Bnt he "il rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he 's old... | |
| 1895 - 78 pages
...get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, Bat he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching Till be learns the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching; His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty... | |
| 1875 - 880 pages
...better criticism has been written upon his favourites than that which is contained in his two volumes of The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching,...shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the last new Jerusalem. Indeed, we may say that the main imessays. pulse... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 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,...shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the last New Jerusalem." lished anonymously, but its authorship was soon... | |
| Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 456 pages
...his own peril, how ill the artist in him was likely to fare at the hands of the moral enthusiast : " His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well,...shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the last new Jerusalem." The first series of The Biglow Papers voiced the... | |
| Charles Noble - 1898 - 460 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...shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the last New Jerusalem. His serious statement of the ideal, which in these... | |
| Edward Payson Evans - 1898 - 470 pages
...get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on bis shoulders, The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching...shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the last new Jerusalem." Der Wortführer, Apollo Musagetes, beschränkt sich... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1898 - 538 pages
...get on alone, spite of troubles and bowlders, 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 distinctions 'twixt singing and preaching; His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But... | |
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