 | 1891 - 850 pages
...get on alone, spite of brambles and ooulders, But be can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders. The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching...lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 924 pages
...get on alone, spite of brambles and boulderd, But he can't with that bundle he ha? on his shoulders. The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching...singing and preaching. His lyre has some chords that wonld ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half make a drum of tho shell, And rattle away till he's... | |
 | 1854 - 524 pages
...get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders ; The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching,...lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 604 pages
...alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders ; The lop of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching, Till...lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme : ss * The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching...learns the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching.' The 'preaching' is indeed very tiresome in numerous examples; especially when both text and sermon... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1856 - 112 pages
...get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching Till he learns the distinction 'tvvixt singing and preaching ; His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he'd rather... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1858 - 328 pages
...get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching...lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half make a drunl of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, " There... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 pages
...distinction 'twixt singing and preaching; His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, Don Juan, With the wickedness out that gave salt to the true " There goes Halleek.... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 330 pages
...that would ring pretty well, Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singiirg and preaching; But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, 14 There goes Halleck, whose Fanny's a pseudo Don Juan, With the wickedness... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 102 pages
...on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, "he top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching Till...the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching ; His lyro has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell,... | |
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There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme, He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, The top of the hill he will ne'er come... 
