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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  

✵ 22. février 1819 – 12. août 1891
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James Russell Lowell: Citations en anglais

“Ez to my princerples, I glory
In hevin' nothin' o' the sort.”

No. 7
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“All kin' o' smily round the lips,
An' teary round the lashes.”

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

“You've gut to git up airly
Ef you want to take in God.”

No. 1, st. 2
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 'tis to crow:
Don't never prophesy — onless ye know.”

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

“The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.”

Interview with Miles Standish.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”

On Democracy (6 October 1884)
Contexte: There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. And in this case, also, the prudent will prepare themselves to encounter what they cannot prevent. Some people advise us to put on the brakes, as if the movement of which we are conscious were that of a railway train running down an incline. But a metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home and imbed it in the memory.

“A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.”

Shakespeare Once More
Literary Essays, vol. III (1870-1890)

“An umbrella is of no avail against a Scotch mist.”

On a Certain Condesceneion in Foreigners
Literary Essays, vol. III (1870-1890)

“Like streams that keep a summer mind
Snow-hid in Jenooary.”

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

“There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,
Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.”

James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics

Pt. VI - Poe and Longfellow, st. 1
A Fable for Critics (1848)