James Russell Lowell, né le 22 février 1819 à Cambridge, dans le Massachusetts, mort le 12 août 1891 à Cambridge, est un poète romantique, un critique, un satiriste, un écrivain, un diplomate et un abolitionniste américain. Wikipedia
“There is no price set on the lavish summer,
And June may be had by the poorest comer.”
Prelude to Pt. I, st. 3
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)
“The capacity of indignation makes an essential part of the outfit of every honest man.”
On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners (1869)
“Darkness is strong, and so is Sin,
But surely God endures forever.”
Villa Franca.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Election in November 1860 (1860)
“T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look
On sech a blessed cretur.”
The Courtin' .
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
The Courtin' .
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
On Democracy (6 October 1884)
Epigram.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
An Indian Summer Reverie http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1164/, st. 8 (1846)
"On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington" (1845)
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago
Motto of the American Copyright League. (Written Nov. 20, 1885).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), Rousseau and the Sentimentalists
Graves of Two English Soldiers on Concord Battleground, st. 3 (1849)
“Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”
Speech at the banquet for Grand Duke Alexis, 11 November 1871 at the Revere House Hotel in Boston, p. 102 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=YRmn-_vXZ58C&pg=PA102&dq=persuaded
Cf. George Eliot 1879: Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact
“Soft-heartedness, in times like these,
Shows sof'ness in the upper story.”
No. 7.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
The Washers of the Shroud http://www.bartleby.com/102/129.html, st. 1 (October 1861)
No. 5.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
Cambridge Thirty Years Ago.
Literary Essays, vol. I (1864-1890)
The Courtin' , st. 1.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)