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.”

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

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

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?”

St. 3.
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.”

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.”

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.”

St. 5.
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.”

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.”

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.”

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