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James Russell Lowell amerikai költő, író, diplomata.

✵ 22. február 1819 – 12. augusztus 1891
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James Russell Lowell: Idézetek angolul

“I don't believe in princerple,
But oh I du in interest.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 6, st. 9
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,
Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;
The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,
FitzGerald strung them on an English thread.”

James Russell Lowell

In a Copy of Omar Khayyam.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Változat: These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,
Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;
The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,
FitzGerald strung them on an English thread.

“What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!”

James Russell Lowell

Változat: What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!
Forrás: My Study Windows (1871), chapter "Library of Old Authors'".

“They come transfigured back,
Secure from change in their high-hearted ways,
Beautiful evermore, and with the rays
Of morn on their white Shields of Expectation!”

James Russell Lowell

St. 8. <br class="br"> Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1169/ (July 21, 1865)

“Nature, they say, doth dote,
And cannot make a man
Save on some worn-out plan,
Repeating us by rote.”

James Russell Lowell

St. 5. <br class="br"> Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1169/ (July 21, 1865)

“Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul,
An' risen up earth's greatest nation.”

James Russell Lowell

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

“A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler
O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.”

James Russell Lowell

No. 4, st. 2.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,
But hern went pity-Zekle.”

James Russell Lowell

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

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

James Russell Lowell

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

“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

&quot;Chaucer,&quot; http://books.google.com/books?id=LOdNAAAAcAAJ&amp;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&amp;pg=PA185#v=onepage North American Review (July 1870) http://books.google.com/books?id=sAVaov3zePMC&amp;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&amp;pg=PA173#v=onepage <br class="br">My Study Windows (1871)

“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