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" So thought I, as, with vague, mechanic eyes, I scanned the festering news we half despise Yet scramble for no less, And read of public scandal, private fraud, Crime flaunting scot-free while the mob applaud, Office made vile to bribe unworthiness, And... "
The Atlantic Monthly - Page 572
1874
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Views and Interviews on Journalism

Charles Frederick Wingate - American newspapers - 1875 - 380 pages
...Agassiz, are these terrible lines, whose fitness, we may fear, will make them stick for some time : " I scanned the festering news we half despise, Yet...scot-free while the mob applaud, Office made vile to bribe tmworthiness, And all the unwholesome mess. The Land of Broken Promise serves of late To teach the...
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Friends' Weekly Intelligencer, Volume 31

Society of Friends - 1875 - 1084 pages
...as if they fostered ignorance with all its brood of vices and crimes, referred to news from home ; Public scandal, private fraud, Crime flaunting scot-free...vile to bribe unworthiness, And all the unwholesome mtss The Land of Broken Promipe serves of late To teach the Old World how to wait." Is this indeed...
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American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson

Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 480 pages
...with vague, mechanic eyes, I scanned the festering news we half despise Yet scramble for no less, 35 And read of public scandal, private fraud, Crime flaunting...unwholesome mess The Land of Broken Promise serves of late 40 To teach the Old World how to wait, When suddenly, winged sandals, was the tutelar divinity of merchants,...
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American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson

Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 596 pages
...use of language taught, 30 Tells only what he must, — The steel cold fact in one laconic thrust. 2. So thought I, as, with vague, mechanic eyes, I scanned...festering news we half despise Yet scramble for no less, 35 And read of public scandal, private fraud, Crime flaunting scot-free while the mob applaud, Office...
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American Poems: Longfellow: Whittier: Bryant: Holmes: Lowell: Emerson

Horace Elisha Scudder - American poetry - 1879 - 474 pages
...scant use of language taught, 30 Tells only what he must, — The steel cold fact in one laconic thrust So thought I, as, with vague, mechanic eyes, I scanned...festering news we half despise Yet scramble for no less, 35 And read of public scandal, private fraud, Crime flaunting scot-free while the mob applaud, Office...
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Heartsease and Rue, Issue 2

James Russell Lowell - (Cover Design) - 1888 - 246 pages
...use of language taught, Tells only what he must, — The steel-cold fact in one laconic thrust. 2. So thought I, as, with vague, mechanic eyes, I scanned...unworthiness, And all the unwholesome mess The Land of Honest Abraham serves of late To teach the Old World how to wait, When suddenly, As happens if the...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 49

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1888 - 476 pages
...a far-off Italian city, and he describes the feelings with which he began to run over its columns. So thought I, as, with vague, mechanic eyes, I scanned...unworthiness, And all the unwholesome mess The Land of Honest Abraham serves of late To teach the Old World how to wait, When suddenly, As happens if the...
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Household Guest, Volume 1

1888 - 572 pages
...the defects of American political example : — " I scanned the festering news we half despise, Tet scramble for no less, And read of public scandal,...unworthiness, And all the unwholesome mess The land of Honest Abraham serves of late To teach the Old World how to wait." The keen words of " Tempora Mutantur,"...
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Poems

James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 296 pages
...use of language taught, Tells only what he must, — The steel-cold fact in one laconic thrust. 2. So thought I, as, with vague, mechanic eyes, I scanned...unworthiness, And all the unwholesome mess The Land of Honest Abraham serves of late To teach the Old World how to wait, When suddenly, As happens if the...
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The Writings of James Russell Lowell: Poems

James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 296 pages
...use of language taught, Tells only what he must, — The steel-cold fact in one laconic thrust. 2. So thought I, as, with vague, mechanic eyes, I scanned...unworthiness, And all the unwholesome mess The Land of Honest Abraham serves of late To teach the Old World how to wait, When suddenly, As happens if the...
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