 ... 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 nigh reaching Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching ; His lyre has...  The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell - Page 152by James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 453 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1891 - 850 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, At the head of a march to the last new Jerusalem. Six-and-twenty years later,... | |
 | 1854 - 524 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, At the head of a march to the last New Jerusalem." That " distinction 'twirt... | |
 | 1854 - 604 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, At the head of a march to the last New Jerusalem. That "distinction 'twixt... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 328 pages
...drunl of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, " There goes Halleek, whose Fanny's a pseudo Don Juan, With the wickedness out that gave salt to the true one, He's a wit, though, I hear, of the very first order, And once made a pun on the words soft Recorder... | |
 | 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 - 1866 - 330 pages
...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 of a march to the last new Jerusalem. •' There goes Halleck, whose Fanny's a pseudo Don Juan, With the wickedness out that gave salt to the true one, He's a wit, though,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 322 pages
...that would ring pretty well, Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching ; But he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the last new Jerusalem. Don Juan, With the wickedness... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 334 pages
...the shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, goes Halleck, whose Fanny's a pseudo J-'on Juan, 'With the wickedness out that gave salt to the true one, He's a wit, though, I hear, of the very first order, And once made a pun on the words soft Recorder;... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pages
...preaching ; His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, A FABLE FOR CRITICS. 147 But he 'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle...last new Jerusalem. " There goes Halleck, whose Fanny 'a a pseudo Don Juan, With the wickedness out that gave salt to the true one, He 'sa wit, though, I... | |
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