Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 / 2008-06-10 00:00:00

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AMONG MY BOOKS
First Series

by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
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To F.D.L.

Love comes and goes with music in his feet,
And tunes young pulses to his roundelays;
Love brings thee this: will it persuade thee, Sweet,
That he turns proser when he comes and stays?
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CONTENTS.

DRYDEN
WITCHCRAFT
SHAKESPEARE ONCE MORE
NEW ENGLAND TWO CENTURIES AGO
LESSING
ROUSSEAU AND THE SENTIMENTALISTS
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DRYDEN.[1]

Benvenuto Cellini tells us that when, in his boyhood, he saw a salamander
come out of the fire, his grandfather forthwith gave him a sound beating,
that he might the better remember so unique a prodigy. Though perhaps in
this case the rod had another application than the autobiographer chooses
to disclose, and was intended to fix in the pupil's mind a lesson of
veracity rather than of science, the testimony to its mnemonic virtue
remains. Nay, so universally was it once believed that the senses, and
through them the faculties of observation and retention, were quickened
by an irritation of the cuticle, that in France it was customary to whip
the children annually at the boundaries of the parish, lest the true
place of them might ever be lost through neglect of so inexpensive a
mordant for the memory.
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