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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,"... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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