SIX ESSAYS.

BY

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, A.M.,

PROFESSOR OF BELLES LETTRES IN HARVARD COLLEGE.

London:
MACMILLAN & CO.

& .
1870.

[The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.]

LONDON:

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,

BREAD STREET HILL.

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 ?

SIX ESSA YS.

BY

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, A.M.,

PROFESSOR OF BELLES-LETTRES IN HARVARD COLLEGE.

London:
MACMILLAN & CO.

1870.

[The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved.]