 | American periodicals - 1866 - 924 pages
...defect, for, in his charming and witty poem, " A Fable for Critics," he makes Apollo say : — " There's Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb, With a...rhyme, He might get on 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... | |
 | 1891 - 850 pages
...imposed upon him. In the " Fable for Critics," written when he was nine-and-tweoty he says : — There's Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb, With a...rhyme ; He might get on alone, spite of brambles and ooulders, But be can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders. The top of the hill he will ne'er... | |
 | 1854 - 524 pages
...I.. No. XIII.— JÄHES RUSSELL LOWELL. " THERE is Lowell," says one who ought to know him well — " There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of úms tied together in rhyme ; He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't with... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 604 pages
...Colburn'i New Monthly. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL "THERE is Lowell," says one who ought to know him well — There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of ismi tied together in rhyme ; He might get oii alone, spite of brambles and boulders, But he can't... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1854 - 520 pages
...No. Х1ГГ. — JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. " THEBE is Lowell," says one 'who ought to know him well — " There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb With a whole bale of ism* tied together in rhyme ; He might get on alone, spite of brambles and bonlders, But he can't with... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1855 - 780 pages
...down in Judce ! All "progress" tendencies are sure of Mr. Lowell: he himself Bays, via Phœbus : — There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb, With a whole bale of ими tied together in rhyme — and the causes of " popular elevation " and the abolition of slavery... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...for the Critics, the author seems to be fully conscious of his errors, for he says of himself — ' There is Lowell, 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 he learns the distinction 'twixt singing... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 330 pages
...measure so kindly, you doubt if the toes That are trodden upon are your own or your lyric foes'. " There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb...The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singiirg... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1848 - 102 pages
...In so kindly a measure, that nobody knows What to do but e'en join in the laugh, friends and foes. " There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb...he can't with that bundle he has on his shoulders, "he top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - Poetry - 1866 - 322 pages
...measure so kindly, you doubt if the toes That are trodden upon are your own or your lyric foes'. " There is Lowell, who's striving Parnassus to climb...The top of the hill he will ne'er come nigh reaching His lyre has some chords that would ring pretty well, Till he learns the distinction 'twixt singing... | |
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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... 
