Poems of James Russell Lowell Part 71

Cincinnatus, a stock character in modern comedy, 443.

Civilization, progress of, an _alias_, 422 rides upon a powder-cart, 429.

Clergymen, their ill husbandry, 421 their place in processions, 443 some, cruelly banished for the soundness of their lungs, 453.

c.o.c.ked-hat, advantages of being knocked into, 428.

College of Cardinals, a strange one, 401.

Colman, Dr. Benjamin, anecdote of, 407.

Colored folks, curious national diversion of kicking, 398.

Colquitt, a remark of, 419 acquainted with some principles of aerostation, _ib._

Columbia, District of, its peculiar climatic effects, 410 not certain that Martin is for abolis.h.i.+ng it, 448.

Columbus, a Paul Pry of genius, 427.

Columby, 445.

Complete Letter-Writer, fatal gift of, 431.

Compostella, St. James of, seen, 399.

Congress, singular consequence of getting into, 410.

Congressional debates, found instructive, 416.

Const.i.tuents, useful for what, 411.

Const.i.tution trampled on, 417 to stand upon, what, 429.

Convention, what, 410.

Convention, Springfield, 410.

c.o.o.n, old, pleasure in skinning, 418.

Coppers, _caste_ in picking up of, 437.

Copres, a monk, his excellent method of arguing, 416.

Cornwallis, a, 395 acknowledged entertaining, _ib._, _note_.

Cotton Mather, summoned as witness, 400.

Country lawyers, sent providentially, 404.

Country, our, its boundaries more exactly defined, 404 right or wrong, nonsense about exposed, _ib._

Courier, The Boston, an unsafe print, 415.

Court, General, farmers sometimes attain seats in, 444.

Cowper, W., his letters commended, 427.

Creed, a safe kind of, 439.

Crusade, first American, 400.

Cuneiform script recommended, 432.

Curiosity distinguishes man from brutes, 426.

D.

Davis, Mr., of Mississippi, a remark of his, 418.

Day and Martin, proverbially "on hand," 388.

Death, rings down curtain, 426.

Delphi, oracle of, surpa.s.sed, 414, _note_ alluded to, 431.

Destiny, her account, 413.

Devil, the, unskilled in certain Indian tongues, 400 letters to and from, 428.

Dey of Tripoli, 416.

Didymus, a somewhat voluminous grammarian, 431.

Dighton rock character might be usefully employed in some emergencies, 432.

Dimitry Bruisgins, fresh supply of, 426.

Diogenes, his zeal for propagating certain variety of olive, 441.

Dioscuri, imps of the pit, 400.

District-Attorney, contemptible conduct of one, 416.

Ditchwater on brain, a too common ailing, 416.

Doctor, the, a proverbial saying of, 399.

Doughface, yeast-proof, 424.