Poems of James Russell Lowell Part 78

Star, north, subject to indictment, whether, 420.

Store, cheap cash, a wicked fraud, 441.

Strong, Governor Caleb, a patriot, 404.

Swearing commended as a figure of speech, 394, _note_.

Swift, Dean, threadbare saying of, 405.

 

T.

Tag, elevated to the Cardinalate, 401.

Taxes, direct, advantages of, 442.

Taylor zeal, its origin, 446 General, greased by Mr. Choate, 448.

Tesephone, banished for long-windedness, 416.

Thanks, get lodged, 437.

Thaumaturgus, St. Gregory, letter of, to the Devil, 428.

Thirty-nine articles might be made serviceable, 400.

Thor, a foolish attempt of, 417.

Thumb, General Thomas, a valuable member of society, 413.

Thunder, supposed in easy circ.u.mstances, 435.

Thynne, Mr., murdered, 393.

Time, an innocent personage to swear by, 394 a scene-s.h.i.+fter 426.

Toms, Peeping, 426.

Trees, various kinds of extraordinary ones, 440, 441.

Trowbridge, William, mariner, adventure of, 400.

Truth and falsehood start from same point, 402 truth invulnerable to satire, _ib._ compared to a river, 408 of fiction sometimes truer than fact, _ib._ told plainly, _pa.s.sim_.

Tuileries, exciting scene at, 414.

Tully, a saying of, 409, _note_.

Tweedledee, gospel according to, 422.

Tweedledum, great principles of, 422.

U.

Ulysses, husband of Penelope, 404 borrows money, 441.

(For full particulars of, see Homer and Dante.)

University, triennial catalogue of, 406.

V.

Van Buren fails of gaining Mr. Sawin's confidence, 448 his son John reproved, _ib._

Van, Old, plan to set up, 449.

Venetians, invented something once, 441.

Vices, cardinal, sacred conclave of, 401.

Victoria, Queen, her natural terror, 414.

Virgin, the, letter of, to Magistrates of Messina, 428.

Vratz, Captain, a Pomeranian, singular views of, 393.

W.

Walpole, Horace, cla.s.sed, 427 his letters praised, _ib._

Waltham Plain, Cornwallis at, 395.

Walton, punctilious in his intercourse with fishes, 400.

War, abstract, horrid, 429 its hoppers, grist of, what, 437.

Warton, Thomas, a story of, 407.

Was.h.i.+ngton, charge brought against, 445.

Was.h.i.+ngton, city of, climatic influence of, on coats, 410 mentioned, 416 grand jury of, 420.

Was.h.i.+ngtons, two hatched at a time by improved machine, 444.

Water, Taunton, proverbially weak, 449.

Water-trees, 440.