Template:RQ:Lowell Among My Books
1870, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Among My Books, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC:
- The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Lowell Among My Books/documentation. [edit]
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Usage
[edit]This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from James Russell Lowell's work Among My Books (1st edition, 1st series, 1870; and 2nd series, 1876). It can be used to create a link to online versions of the work at the Internet Archive:
- 1st series (1870; contents).
- 2nd series (1876; contents).
| Chapter | First page number |
|---|---|
| 1st series | |
| Dryden | page 1 |
| Witchcraft | page 81 |
| Shakespeare Once More | page 151 |
| New England Two Centuries ago | page 228 |
| Lessing | page 291 |
| Rousseau and the Sentimentalists | page 349 |
| 2nd series | |
| Dante | page 1 |
| Spenser | page 125 |
| Wordsworth | page 201 |
| Milton | page 252 |
| Keats | page 303 |
Parameters
[edit]The template takes the following parameters:
|series=– mandatory in some cases: if quoting from the 2nd series (1876), specify|series=2. If this parameter is omitted, the template defaults to the 1st series (1870).|footnote=– if quoting from a footnote, the footnote symbol, like this:|footnote=*.|1=or|page=, or|pages=– mandatory: the page number(s) quoted from. If quoting a range of pages, note the following:- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
|pages=10–11. - You must also use
|pageref=to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).
- Separate the first and last page number of the range with an en dash, like this:
- This parameter must be specified to have the template link determine the name of the chapter quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.
|2=,|text=, or|passage=– the passage to be quoted.|footer=– a comment on the passage quoted.|brackets=– use|brackets=onto surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.
Examples
[edit]- 1st series (1870)
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Lowell Among My Books|page=85|passage=Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great '''mythologizer'''; {{...}}}}; or{{RQ:Lowell Among My Books|85|Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great '''mythologizer'''; {{...}}}}
- Result:
- 1870, James Russell Lowell, “Witchcraft”, in Among My Books, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 85:
- Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer; […]
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Lowell Among My Books|pages=109–110|pageref=110|passage=In Germany, he [{{w|Satan}}] has a horse's and not a cloven foot, because the horse was a frequent pagan sacrifice, and therefore associated with devil-worship under the new dispensation. Hence the horror of '''hippophagism''' which some French gastronomes are striving to overcome.}} - Result:
- 1870, James Russell Lowell, “Witchcraft”, in Among My Books, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, pages 109–110:
- In Germany, he [Satan] has a horse's and not a cloven foot, because the horse was a frequent pagan sacrifice, and therefore associated with devil-worship under the new dispensation. Hence the horror of hippophagism which some French gastronomes are striving to overcome.
- 2nd series (1876)
- Wikitext:
{{RQ:Lowell Among My Books|series=2|footnote=*|page=195|passage=I find a goodly number of Yankeeisms in him, such as ''idee'' (not as a rhyme); but the oddest is his twice spelling ''dew deow'', which is just as one would spell it who wished to '''phonetize''' its sound in rural New England.}} - Result:
- 1876, James Russell Lowell, “Spenser”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, footnote *, page 195:
- I find a goodly number of Yankeeisms in him, such as idee (not as a rhyme); but the oddest is his twice spelling dew deow, which is just as one would spell it who wished to phonetize its sound in rural New England.
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