The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose And Poetry
The book The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose And Poetry was written by author Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 Here you can read free online of The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose And Poetry book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose And Poetry a good or bad book?
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I like folks who like an honest bit of steel, and take no interest whatever in " your Eaphaels, Correggios, and stuff." There is always more than IN THE MEDITERRANEAN 115 the average human nature in a man who has a hearty sympathy with iron. It is a manly metal, with no sordid associations like gold and silver. My sailor fully came up to my expectation on further acquaintance. He might well be called an old salt who had been wrecked on Spitzbergen be- fore I was born. He was not an American, bu...t I should never have guessed it by his speech, which was the purest Cape Cod, and I reckon myself a good taster of dialects. Nor was he less Ameri- canized in all his thoughts and feelings, a singular proof of the ease with which our omnivorous coun- try assimilates foreign matter, provided it be Prot- estant, for he was a grown man ere he became an American citizen. He used to walk the deck with his hands in his pockets, in seeming abstraction, but nothing escaped his eye. How he saw, I could never make out, though I had a theory that it was with his elbows.
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