James Thomas Fields

James Thomas Fields

James Thomas Fields (December 31, 1817 – April 24, 1881) was an American publisher and author.

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• Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch,
  The owl very gravely got down from his perch,
  Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic
  (Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.
  • The Owl-Critic, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• "I’m an owl; you’re another. Sir Critic, good day."
  And the barber kept on shaving.
  • The Owl-Critic, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Oh, to be home again, home again, home again!
  Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!
  • In a strange Land, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• The skipper stormed and tore his hair,
  Hauled on his boots and roared at Marden—
  "Nantucket's sunk and here we are
  Right over old Marm Hackett’s garden!"
  • The Nantucket Skipper, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Is n’t God upon the ocean
  Just the same as on the land?
  • The Tempest, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

External links

• Works by James T. Fields at Project Gutenberg
• Eli Siegel on Satire Comment on 'The Owl Critic,' satiric poem by James Thomas Fields
• Ballads and other verses, by James T. Fields at the University of Michigan Library