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• Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin', No. vii...
• Our Pilgrim stock wuz pithed with hardihood. -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin', No.
  vi...
• All kin' o' smily round the lips, An' teary round the lashes.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
• His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
• Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
• The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin'.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
• T was kin' o' kingdom-come to look On sech a blessed cretur.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
• Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown An' peeked in thru' the winder, An' there sot Huldy all alone, 'Ith no one nigh to hender.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, Second Series, The Courtin'...
• Ez to my princerples, I glory In hevin' nothin' o' the sort.
  -- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- The Biglow Papers, First Series, No. vii...