Poems of James Russell Lowell Part 74

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Lacedaemonians, banish a great talker, 416.

Lamb, Charles, his epistolary excellence, 427.

Latimer, Bishop, episcopizes Satan, 393.

Latin tongue, curious information concerning, 405.

Launcelot, Sir, a trusser of giants formerly, perhaps would find less sport therein now, 417.

Letters cla.s.sed, 427 their shape, 428 of candidates, 431 often fatal, _ib._

Lewis, Philip, a scourger of young native Americans, 414 commiserated (though not deserving it), _ib._, _note_.

Liberator, a newspaper, condemned by implication, 406.

Liberty, unwholesome for men of certain complexions, 422.

Lignum vitae, a gift of this valuable wood proposed, 399.

Longinus recommends swearing, 394, _note_ (Fuseli did same thing).

Long sweetening recommended, 435.

Lost arts, one sorrowfully added to list of, 453.

Louis the Eleventh of France, some odd trees of his, 441.

Lowell, Mr. J. R., unaccountable silence of, 405.

Luther, Martin, his first appearance as Europa, 399.

Lyttelton, Lord, his letters an imposition, 427.

M.

Macrobii, their diplomacy, 432.

Mahomet, got nearer Sinai than some, 422.

Mahound, his filthy gobbets, 400.

Mangum, Mr., speaks to the point, 418.

Manichaean, excellently confuted, 416.

Man-trees, grew where, 441.

Mares'-nests, finders of, benevolent, 427.

Marshfield, 443, 447.

Martin, Mr. Sawin used to vote for him, 448.

Mason and Dixon's line, slaves north of, 418.

Ma.s.s, the, its duty defined, 418.

Ma.s.sachusetts on her knees, 392 something mentioned in connection with, worthy the attention of tailors, 410 citizen of, baked, boiled, and roasted (_nefandum!_), 438.

Ma.s.ses, the, used as b.u.t.ter by some, 411.

M. C., an invertebrate animal, 413.

Mechanics' Fair, reflections suggested at, 433.

Mentor, letters of, dreary, 427.

Mephistopheles at a nonplus, 420.

Mexican blood, its effect in raising price of cloth, 442.

Mexican polka, 400.

Mexicans charged with various breaches of etiquette, 398 kind feelings beaten into them, 425.

Mexico, no glory in overcoming, 410.

Military glory spoken disrespectfully of, 396, _note_ militia treated still worse, _ib._

Milk-trees, growing still, 440.

Mills for manufacturing gabble, how driven, 415.

Milton, an unconscious plagiary, 409, _note_ a Latin verse of, cited, 422.

Missions, a profitable kind of, 423.

Monarch, a pagan, probably not favored in philosophical experiments, 394.

Money-trees desirable, 441 that they once existed shown to be variously probable, _ib._

Montaigne, a communicative old Gascon, 427.

Monterey, battle of, its singular chromatic effect on a species of two-headed eagle, 414.