 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...Willis. As tender as Fletcher, as witty as Beaumont, His best things are done in the flush of the moment. Nature fits all her children with something to do...who would write and can't write, can surely review. From FOR AN AUTOGRAPH. Though old the thought, and oft exprest, 'Tis his at last who says it best .... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1882 - 494 pages
...eacli suggests opposite topics for song, They all shout tugether you 're right ! and you 're wrong ! "Nature fits all her children with something to do,...can't write, can surely review, Can set up a small booih as critic and sell us hu Petty conceit and his pettier jealousies ; Thus a lawyer's apprentice,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...Act iv. Sc. 2 CRITICISM— CRITICS. I am nothing if not critical. 916 Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 1. Nature fits all her children with something to...sell us his Petty conceit and his pettier jealousies. 917 James Russell Lowell: A Fable for Critics. No author ever spared a brother ; Wits are game-cocks... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - American wit and humor - 1883 - 264 pages
...defendant and plaintiff get equally cast ; There shoemakers quietly ' stick to the last.'" The lines— " Nature fits all her children with something to do,...who would write and can't write can surely review," remind us forcibly of two lines I remember reading, I think, in MOORE : " If you do not write verses,... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - American wit and humor - 1883 - 234 pages
...defendant and plaintiff get equally cast ; There shoemakers quietly ' stick to the last.'" The lines— " Nature fits all her children with something to do,...who would write and can't write can surely review," remind us forcibly of two lines I remember reading, I think, in MOORE : " If you do not write verses,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 484 pages
...each suggests opposite topics for song, They all shout together you're right/ and you 're wrong I " Nature fits all her children with something to do,...review, Can set up a small booth as critic and sell us lus Petty conceit and his pettier jealousies ; Thus a lawyer's apprentice, just out of his teens, Will... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 518 pages
...shout together you *re right I and you 're wrong ! " Nature fits all her children with •omething to do. He who would write and can't write, can surely...review, Can set up a small booth as critic and sell us hi ; Petty conceit and his pettier jealousies ; Thus a lawyer's apprentice, just out of his teens,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 330 pages
...each suggests opposite topics for song, They all shout together you Ve right ! and you 're wrong ! " Nature fits all her children with something to do,...six magazines ; Having read Johnson's lives of the poets half through, There 's nothing on earth he 's not competent to ; He reviews with as much nonchalance... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 118 pages
...each suggests opposite topics for song, They all shout together you're right! and you 're wrong ! " Nature fits all her children with something to do,...six magazines ; Having read Johnson's lives of the poets half through, There 's nothing on earth he 's not competent to ; He reviews with as much nonchalance... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American literature - 1890 - 312 pages
...each suggests opposite topics for song, They all shout together you Ve right! and you 're wrong! " Nature fits all her children with something to do,...six magazines; Having read Johnson's lives of the poets half through, There 's nothing on earth he 's not competent to ; He reviews with as much nonchalance... | |
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Nature fits all her children with something to do, He who would write and can't write can surely review, Can set up a small booth as critic and sell us his Petty conceit and his pettier jealousies ; Thus a lawyer's apprentice, just out of his teens, Will... 
