James Russell Lowell idézet
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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

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

James Russell Lowell

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

“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)

“Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides
Into the silent hollow of the past;
What is there that abides
To make the next age better for the last?”

James Russell Lowell

St. 3. <br class="br"> Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1169/ (July 21, 1865)

“The surest plan to make a Man
Is, think him so.”

James Russell Lowell

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

“The Maple puts her corals on in May,
While loitering frosts about the lowlands cling,
To be in tune with what the robins sing.”

James Russell Lowell

Sonnet, The Maple http://www.theatlantic.com/ideastour/archive/lowell.mhtml (1875)

“Here was a type of the true elder race,
And one of Plutarch's men talked with us face to face.”

James Russell Lowell

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

“Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.”

James Russell Lowell

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), New England Two Centuries Ago

“Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.”

James Russell Lowell

Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), Rousseau and the Sentimentalists

“Both of them mean that Labor has no rights which Capital is bound to respect,—that there is no higher law than human interest and cupidity.”

James Russell Lowell

Referring to John C. Breckenridge and Stephen A. Douglas (Abraham Lincoln's opponents)
The Election in November 1860 (1860)