 Till he learns the 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.  Lippincott's Monthly Magazine - Pàgina 7261888Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 pàgines
...distinction 'twixt singing and preaching ; His 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 head of a march to the last new Jerusalem. "There goes Halleck, whose... | |
 | 1875 - 844 pàgines
...he will ne'er come nigh reaching, Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing and preaching ; His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well,...shell, And rattle away till he's old as Methusalem, 1 At the head of a march to the last new Jerusalem. ; Indeed, we may say that the main imj pulse in... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 pàgines
...'twixt singing and preaching ; His lyre has some chords that would 146 A FABLE FOR CRITICS. But he 'd rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle away till he 'a old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the last new " There goes Halleck, whose Fanny 'a... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 450 pàgines
...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 away till he 's old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the last new Jerusalem. " There goes Halleck, whose... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pàgines
...FABLE FOR CRITICS. But he 'd rather l>y half make a drum of the shell, And rattle nxvay till lie 's old as Methusalem, At the head of a march to the last new Jerusalem. " There goes Halleck, whose Fanny 's a pseudn Don Juan, \V'ith the wickedness out that gave salt to... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 474 pàgines
...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...head of a march to the last new Jerusalem." This, of course, is but a half serious portrait of himself, and it touches but a single feature; others can... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 480 pàgines
...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." This, of course, is but... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1879 - 596 pàgines
...well But he M rather by half make a drum of the shell, And rattle avvay till he 's old as Methusalcm, At the head of a march to the last new Jerusalem." This, of course, is but a half serious portrait of himself, and it touches but a single feature; others can... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 pàgines
...he will ne'er come nigh reaching Till he learns the distinetion 'twixt singing aud preaching; Ilia lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well,...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... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 pàgines
...distinction 'twixl 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 Methosalem, At the head of a march to the last new Jerusalem. '' There goes Halleck, whose... | |
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