Poems of James Russell Lowell / With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole

by James Russell Lowell

• C.
• C., General, commended for parts, [402]
  • for ubiquity, ib.
  • for consistency, ib.
  • for fidelity, ib.
  • is in favor of war, ib.
  • his curious valuation of principle, ib.
• Cæsar, tribute to, [424]
  • his veni, vidi, vici, censured for undue prolixity, [432].
• Cainites, sect of, supposed still extant, [393].
• Caleb, a monopoly of his denied, [395]
  • curious notions of, as to meaning of "shelter," [398]
  • his definition of Anglo-Saxon, ib.
  • charges Mexicans (not with bayonets but) with improprieties, ib.
• Calhoun, Hon. J. C., his cow-bell curfew, light of the nineteenth century to be extinguished at sound of, [416]
  • cannot let go apron-string of the Past, [417]
  • his unsuccessful tilt at Spirit of the Age, ib.
  • the Sir Kay of modern chivalry, ib.
  • his anchor made of a crooked pin, [417]
  • mentioned, [417]-[420].
• Cambridge Platform, use discovered for, [400].
• Canary Islands, [441].
• Candidate, presidential, letter from, [428]
  • smells a rat, ib.
  • against a bank, [429]
  • takes a revolving position, ib.
  • opinion of pledges, ib.
  • is a periwig, [430]
  • fronts south by north, ib.
  • qualifications of, lessening, [432]
  • wooden leg (and head) useful to, [439].
• Cape Cod clergymen, what, [400]
  • Sabbath-breakers, perhaps, reproved by, ib.
• Carpini, Father John de Plano, among the Tartars, [453].
• Cartier, Jacques, commendable zeal of, [453].
• Cass, General, [418]
  • clearness of his merit, [419]
  • limited popularity at "Bellers's," [446].
• Castles, Spanish, comfortable accommodations in, [442].
• Cato, letters of, so-called, suspended naso adunco, [427].
• C. D., friends of, can hear of him, [427].
• Chalk egg, we are proud of incubation of, [427].
• Chappelow on Job, a copy of, lost, [421].
• Cherubusco, news of, its effects on English royalty, [414].
• Chesterfield, no letter-writer, [427].
• Chief Magistrate, dancing esteemed sinful by, [400].
• Children naturally speak Hebrew, [394].
• China-tree, [441].
• Chinese, whether they invented gunpowder before the Christian era not considered, [401].
• Choate, hired, [447].
• Christ shuffled into Apocrypha, [401]
  • conjectured to disapprove of slaughter and pillage, [403]
  • condemns a certain piece of barbarism, [421].
• Christianity, profession of, plebeian, whether, [393].
• Christian soldiers, perhaps inconsistent, whether, [407].
• Cicero, an opinion of, disputed, [432].
• Cilley, Ensign, author of nefarious sentiment, [401].
• Cimex lectularius, [397].
• 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].
• Cocked-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 abolishing 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].
• Constituents, useful for what, [411].
• Constitution trampled on, [417]
  • to stand upon, what, [429].
• Convention, what, [410].
• Convention, Springfield, [410].
• Coon, 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, surpassed, [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].
• Drayton, a martyr, [416]
  • north star, culpable for aiding, whether, [420].
• D. Y., letter of, [427].

• E.
• Earth, Dame, a peep at her housekeeping, [417].
• Eating words, habit of, convenient in time of famine, [413].
• Eavesdroppers, [427].
• Echetlæus, [400].
• Editor, his position, [421]
  • commanding pulpit of, [422]
  • large congregation of, ib.
  • name derived from what, ib.
  • fondness for mutton, ib.
  • a pious one, his creed, ib.
  • a showman, [425]
  • in danger of sudden arrest, without bail, [426].
• Editors, certain ones who crow like cockerels, [391].
• Egyptian darkness, phial of, use for, [432].
• Eldorado, Mr. Sawin sets sail for, [440].
• Elizabeth, Queen, mistake of her ambassador, [408].
• Empedocles, [427].
• Employment, regular, a good thing, [436].
• Epaulets, perhaps no badge of saintship, [403].
• Episcopius, his marvellous oratory, [453].
• Eric, king of Sweden, his cap, [441].
• Evangelists, iron ones, [400].
• Eyelids, a divine shield against authors, [416].
• Ezekiel, text taken from, [421].

• F.
• Factory-girls, expected rebellion of, [419].
• Family-trees, fruit of jejune, [441].
• Faneuil Hall, a place where persons tap themselves for a species of hydrocephalus, [416]
  • a bill of fare mendaciously advertised in, [440].
• Father of country, his shoes, [444].
• Female Papists, cut off in midst of idolatry, [442].
• Fire, we all like to play with it, [417].
• Fish, emblematic, but disregarded, where, [416].
• Flam, President, untrustworthy, [411].
• Fly-leaves, providential increase of, [416].
• Foote, Mr., his taste for field-sports, [418].
• Fourier, a squinting toward, [415].
• Fourth of Julys, boiling, [409].
• France, a strange dance begun in, [419].
• Fuller, Dr. Thomas, a wise saying of, [402].
• Funnel, Old, hurraing in, [396].

• G.
• Gawain, Sir, his amusements, [417].
• Gay, S. H., Esquire, editor of National Antislavery Standard, letter to, [426].
• Getting up early, [390], [398].
• Ghosts, some, presumed fidgetty (but see Stilling's Pneumatology), [427].
• Giants formerly stupid, [417].
• Gift of tongues, distressing case of, [415].
• Globe Theatre, cheap season ticket to, [426].
• Glory, a perquisite of officers, [437]
• • her account with B. Sawin, Esq., [440].
• Goatsnose, the celebrated, interview with, [432].
• Gomara, has a vision, [399]
  • his relationship to the Scarlet Woman, ib.
• Gray's letters are letters, [427].
• Great horn spoon, sworn by, [418].
• Greeks, ancient, whether they questioned candidates, [432].
• Green Man, sign of, [406].

• H.
• Ham, sandwich, an orthodox (but peculiar) one, [420].
• Hamlets, machine for making, [433].
• Hammon, [414], note, [431].
• Hannegan, Mr., something said by, [419].
• Harrison, General, how preserved, [431].
• Hat-trees, in full bearing, [441].
• Hawkins, Sir John, stout, something he saw, [440].
• Henry the Fourth of England, a Parliament of, how named, [408].
• Hercules, his second labor probably what, [454].
• Herodotus, story from, [394].
• Hesperides, an inference from, [441].
• Holden, Mr. Shearjashub, Preceptor of Jaalam Academy, [431]
  • his knowledge of Greek limited, ib.
  • a heresy of his, ib.
  • leaves a fund to propagate it, [432].
• Hollis, Ezra, goes to a Cornwallis, [395].
• Hollow, why men providentially so constructed, [409].
• Homer, a phrase of, cited, [422].
• Horners, democratic ones, plums left for, [411].
• Howell, James, Esq., story told by, [408]
  • letters of, commended, [427].
• Human rights out of order on the floor of Congress, [418].
• Humbug, ascription of praise to, [425]
  • generally believed in, ib.
• Husbandry, instance of bad, [402].

• I.
• Icarius, Penelope's father, [404].
• Infants, prattlings of, curious observation concerning, [393].
• Information wanted (universally, but especially at page) [427].

• J.
• Jaalam Centre, Anglo-Saxons unjustly suspected by the young ladies there, [399]
  • "Independent Blunderbuss," strange conduct of editor of, [421]
  • public meeting at, [428]
  • meeting-house ornamented with imaginary clock, [441].
• Jaalam Point, light-house on, charge of prospectively offered to Mr. H. Biglow, [430].
• Jakes, Captain, [450]
  • reproved for avarice, ib.
• James the Fourth of Scots, experiment by, [394].
• Jarnegin, Mr., his opinion of the completeness of Northern education, [419].
• Jerome, Saint, his list of sacred writers, [427].
• Job, Book of, [393]
  • Chappelow on, [421].
• Johnson, Mr., communicates some intelligence, [419].
• Jonah, the inevitable destiny of, [420]
  • probably studied internal economy of the cetacea, [427].
• Jortin, Dr., cited, [407], [414], note.
• Judea, everything not known there, [404].
• Juvenal, a saying of, [413], note.

• K.
• Kay, Sir, the, of modern chivalry who, [417].
• Key, brazen one, [416].
• Keziah, Aunt, profound observation of, [389].
• Kinderhook, [443].
• Kingdom Come, march to, easy, [434].
• Königsmark, Count, [393].

• L.
• Lacedæmonians, 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 classed, [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 vitæ, 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].