“Solo gli stolti e i morti non cambiano mai le loro opinioni.”
da Abraham Lincoln 1864, in My Study Windows, 1871 <br class="br">Origine: My Study Windows p.166 https://archive.org/stream/windowsmystudy00lowerich#page/166/search/Lincoln
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James Russell Lowell frasi celebri
“Che sensazione di sicurezza dà un vecchio libro che il Tempo ha criticato per noi!”
da A Library of Old Authors, in Literary Essays, vol. I, 1864-1890
“Non c'è niente di più disperatamente monotono del mare; non mi stupisco della ferocia dei pirati.”
da Fireside Travels, At Sea, 1864
da Democracy and Addresses, Democracy
da Rousseau and the Sentimentalists, in Literary Essays, vol. II, 1870-1890
“Un saggio scetticismo è il primo attributo di un buon critico.”
da Shakespeare Once More, in Literary Essays, vol. III, 1870-1890
“Benedetti coloro che non hanno nulla da dire e che non si lasciano convincere a dirlo.”
da Shakespeare Once More, in Literary Essays, vol. III, 1870-1890
James Russell Lowell: Frasi in inglese
“It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested.”
Abraham Lincoln http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/1lncn10h.htm (1864)
“Before Man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.”
"On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves Near Washington" (1845)
“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”
Shakespeare once more
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890)
James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics
Pt. V - Cooper, st. 3
A Fable for Critics (1848)
James Russell Lowell The Present Crisis
St. 11
The Present Crisis (1844)
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), Rousseau and the Sentimentalists
“This goin' ware glory waits ye haint one agreeable feetur.”
No. 2, st. 6
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)
Literary Essays, vol. II (1870–1890), Rousseau and the Sentimentalists
The Courtin' .
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
The Election in November 1860 (1860)
“To win the secret of a weed’s plain heart.”
Sonnet XXV
Sonnets (1844)
A Moosehead Journal.
Literary Essays, vol. I (1864-1890)
A Few Bits of Roman Mosaic.
Literary Essays, vol. I (1864-1890)
Before the U. S. Senate Committee on Patents (29 January 1886)
“A reading-machine, always wound up and going,
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”
James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics
Prologue, st. 7
A Fable for Critics (1848)
“Not failure, but low aim, is crime.”
For an Autograph, st. 5 (1868)
“Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood.”
No. 6.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)
The Election in November 1860 (1860)
James Russell Lowell A Fable for Critics
A Fable for Critics (1848)
James Russell Lowell The Present Crisis
St. 9
The Present Crisis (1844)
