 | 1866 - 924 ページ
...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 Till...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... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 ページ
...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 Till...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 ページ
...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 - 1858 - 336 ページ
...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...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. whose Fanny's a... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 328 ページ
...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...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 goes Halleek, whose Fanny's... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 330 ページ
...some chords 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 out that gave salt to the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 102 ページ
...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,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1866 - 330 ページ
...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 singjf g and preaching ; His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he'd rather by half... | |
 | 1873 - 914 ページ
...shoulders. The top of the hill he will ne'er come nlghreachIng, Till he learns the distinction 'twlxt singing and preaching : His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, Bnt he'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And ratUe away till he's old as Methnsalem, At the... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 ページ
...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...lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, But he 'i! rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he 's old as Methusalem, At the... | |
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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... 
