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“But John P.
Robinson, he
Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 3
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“The snow had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.”

James Russell Lowell

The First Snowfall http://www.bartleby.com/248/351.html, st. 1 (1849)

“The one thet fust gits mad 's 'most ollers wrong.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 2.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“In creating, the only hard thing's to begin;
A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak,
If you've once found the way you've achieved the grand stroke.”

James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics

Pt. I - Emerson, st. 1
A Fable for Critics (1848)

“Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;
We are happy now because God wills it.”

James Russell Lowell

Prelude to Pt. I, st. 6
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)

“The question of common sense is always "What is it good for?"—a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.”

James Russell Lowell

"Chaucer," http://books.google.com/books?id=LOdNAAAAcAAJ&q=%22The+question+of+common+sense+is+always+what+is+it+good+for+a+question+which+would+abolish+the+rose+and+be+answered+triumphantly+by+the+cabbage%22&pg=PA185#v=onepage North American Review (July 1870) http://books.google.com/books?id=sAVaov3zePMC&q=%22The+question+of+common+sense+is+always+what+is+it+good+for+a+question+which+would+abolish+the+rose+and+be+answered+triumphantly+by+the+cabbage%22&pg=PA173#v=onepage <br class="br">My Study Windows (1871)

“For though he builds glorious temples, 'tis odd
He leaves never a doorway to get in a god.”

James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics

A Fable for Critics (1848)

“Great truths are portions of the soul of man;
Great souls are portions of eternity.”

James Russell Lowell

Sonnet VI
Sonnets (1844)

“She doeth little kindnesses
Which most leave undone, or despise.”

James Russell Lowell

My Love. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“His words were simple words enough,
And yet he used them so,
That what in other mouths was rough
In his seemed musical and low.”

James Russell Lowell

The Shepherd of King Admetus http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1170/, st. 5

“Under the yaller pines I house,
When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented,
An' hear among their furry boughs
The baskin' west-wind purr contented.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 10.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 3
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“It ain't by princerples nor men
My preudunt course is steadied—
I scent wich pays the best, an' then
Go into it baldheaded.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 6, st. 10
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“If there are men who regret the Good Old Times, without too clear a notion of what they were, they should at least be thankful that we are rid of that misguided energy of faith which justifies conscience in making men unrelentingly cruel.”

James Russell Lowell

Witchcraft
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890)

“Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life, and they solved it with singular discretion. They put as many obstacles as they could contrive, not in the way of the people's will, but of their whim.”

James Russell Lowell

On Democracy (6 October 1884)

“The very room, coz she was in,
Seemed warm from floor to ceilin”

James Russell Lowell

The Courtin' .
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“Tain’t by turnin’ out to hack folks
You’re agoin’ to git your right,
Nor by lookin’ down on black folks
Coz you’re put upon by white;
Slavery ain’t o’ nary color,
’Tain’t the hide thet makes it wus,
All it keers fer in a feller
’S jest to make him fill its pus.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 1, st. 6
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“Our papers don't purtend to print on'y wut Guv'ment choose,
An' thet insures us all to git the very best o' noose.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 3.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“I first drew in New England's air, and from her hardy breast
Sucked in the tyrant-hating milk that will not let me rest.”

James Russell Lowell

"On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington" (1845)

“Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences in belief.”

James Russell Lowell

Witchcraft
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890)