"Noter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bothering me too! She always keeps asking if I don't observe a Particular likeness 'twixt her and Minerva; 1160 She tells me my efforts in verse are quite clever;— She's been travelling now, and will be worse than ever; One would think, though, a sharp-sighted noter she'd be Of all that's worth mentioning over the sea, For a woman must surely see well, if she try, The whole of whose being's a capital I: She will take an old notion, and make it her own, By saying it o'er in her Sibylline tone, Or persuade you 'tis something ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell |
