 | 1849 - 424 pages
...fossils stuck round in a cablnct, Of such va-t extent that our earth's a mere dab in it; Composed just as he is inclined to conjecture her, Namely, one part...pure earth, ninety-nine parts pure lecturer; You are tilled with delight at his clear demonstration, Kach figure, word, gesture, just fits the oceasion,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1856 - 112 pages
...stuck round in a cabinet, Of such vast extent that our earth's a mere dab in it 5 Composed just as he is inclined to conjecture her, Namely, one part pure earth, ninety-nine parts pure lecturer j You are filled with delight at his clear demonstration, Each figure, word, gesture, just fits the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 pages
...fossils stuck round in a cabinet, Of such vast extent that our earth's a mere dab in it; Composed just as he is inclined to conjecture her, Namely, one part pure earth, ninety-nine parts You are filled with delight at his clear demonstration, pure lecturer; Each figure, word, gesture,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 330 pages
...fossils stuck round in a cabinet, Of such vast extent that our earth's a mere dab in it; Composed just as he is inclined to conjecture her, Namely, one part pure earth, ninety-nine parts You are filled with delight at his clear demonstration, pure lecturer; Each figure, word, gesture,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 322 pages
...fossils stuck round in a cabinet, Of such vast extent that our earth's a mere dab in it; Composed just as he is inclined to conjecture her, Namely, one part pure earth, ninety-nine parts You are filled with delight at his clear demonstration, pure lecturer ; Each figure, word, gesture,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 330 pages
...fossils stuck round in a cabinet, Of such vast extent that our earth's a mere dab in it; Composed just as he is inclined to conjecture her, Namely, one part pure earth, ninety-nine parti pure lecturer ; You are filled with delight at his clear demonstration, Each figure, word, gesture,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 820 pages
...stuck round in a cabinet Of such vast extent that our earth's a mere dab in it — Composed just as he is inclined to conjecture her, Namely, one part pure earth, ninety-nine parts pure lecturer." A comparison is suggested between Emerson and Carlyle : — "To'compare him with Plato would be vastly... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 pages
...stuck round in a cabinet, Of such vast extent that our earth 'sa mere dab in it ; Composed just as he is inclined to conjecture her, Namely, one part...pure earth, ninetynine parts pure lecturer ; You are tilled with delight at his clear demonstration, Each figure, word, gesture, just fits the occasion,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pages
...stuck round in a cabinet, Of such vast extent that our earth 'sa mere dab in it ; Composed just as he is inclined to conjecture her, Namely, one part...the occasion, With the quiet precision of science he'1l sort 'em But you can't help suspecting the whole a post mortem. "There are persons, mole-blind... | |
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That he talks of things sometimes as if they were dead; Life, nature, love, God, and affairs of that sort, He looks at as merely ideas; in short, As if they were fossils stuck round in a cabinet, Of such vast extent that our earth 'sa mere dab in it;... 
