Frases de James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell foi um poeta romântico, crítico, satírico, escritor, diplomata e abolicionista dos Estados Unidos da América.

Foi o primeiro editor da revista literária The Atlantic Monthly. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. Fevereiro 1819 – 12. Agosto 1891
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James Russell Lowell Frases famosas

“Não adianta discutir com o inevitável. O único argumento disponível contra o vento de leste é vestir o sobretudo.”

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your over- coat.
"Essays, English and American: with introductions, notes and illustrations‎" - Vol. 28, Página 471, de James Russell Lowell - P. F. Collier & son, 1910 - 485 páginas

“A melhor academia é o joelho da mãe.”

That best academy, a mother's knee.
citado em The Harvard advocate‎ - Página 132, de Harvard University - Publicado por Harvard Advocate., 1870

“Abençoados os que nada têm a dizer e não se deixam persuadir a dizer.”

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Say Hello to your very own book of Quotes‎ - Página 10, de James Russel Lowell, Publicado por Quotations Book

James Russell Lowell frases e citações

“Um cepticismo prudente é o primeiro atributo de um bom crítico.”

Variante: Um ceticismo prudente é o primeiro atributo de um bom crítico.

James Russell Lowell: Frases em inglês

“I don't believe in princerple,
But oh I du in interest.”

No. 6, st. 9
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,
Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;
The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,
FitzGerald strung them on an English thread.”

In a Copy of Omar Khayyam.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variante: These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,
Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;
The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,
FitzGerald strung them on an English thread.

“What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!”

Variante: What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!
Fonte: My Study Windows (1871), chapter "Library of Old Authors'".

“They come transfigured back,
Secure from change in their high-hearted ways,
Beautiful evermore, and with the rays
Of morn on their white Shields of Expectation!”

St. 8.
Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1169/ (July 21, 1865)

“Nature, they say, doth dote,
And cannot make a man
Save on some worn-out plan,
Repeating us by rote.”

St. 5.
Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1169/ (July 21, 1865)

“Earth's biggest country 's gut her soul,
An' risen up earth's greatest nation.”

No. 7.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler
O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.”

No. 4, st. 2.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,
But hern went pity-Zekle.”

The Courtin' .
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“But John P.
Robinson, he
Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.”

No. 3
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)

“The one thet fust gits mad 's 'most ollers wrong.”

No. 2.
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series II (1866)

“The question of common sense is always "What is it good for?"—a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.”

"Chaucer," http://books.google.com/books?id=LOdNAAAAcAAJ&q=%22The+question+of+common+sense+is+always+what+is+it+good+for+a+question+which+would+abolish+the+rose+and+be+answered+triumphantly+by+the+cabbage%22&pg=PA185#v=onepage North American Review (July 1870) http://books.google.com/books?id=sAVaov3zePMC&q=%22The+question+of+common+sense+is+always+what+is+it+good+for+a+question+which+would+abolish+the+rose+and+be+answered+triumphantly+by+the+cabbage%22&pg=PA173#v=onepage
My Study Windows (1871)

“She doeth little kindnesses
Which most leave undone, or despise.”

My Love. iv.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“His words were simple words enough,
And yet he used them so,
That what in other mouths was rough
In his seemed musical and low.”

The Shepherd of King Admetus http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1170/, st. 5