| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - 354 Seiten
...words which, from being often misemployed, require a definition when properly applied. Sentiment is the poetry of feeling. Feeling weeps over the grave...the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, But it was nothing more." He would have said, " Why, what should it be but a simple and pretty flower?"... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1832 - 512 Seiten
...words, which, from being often misemployed, require a definition when properly applied. Sentiment is the poetry of feeling. Feeling weeps over the grave...the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, But it was nothing more." He would have said, " Why what should it be but a simple and pretty flower?"... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1832 - 272 Seiten
...words, which, fuom being often misemployed, require a definition when properly applied. Sentiment is the poetry of feeling. Feeling weeps over the grave...river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, . , But it was nothing more." He would have said, " Why what should it be but a simple and pretty flower?"... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1856 - 522 Seiten
...words which, from being often misemployed, require a definition when properly applied. Sentiment is the poetry of feeling. Feeling weeps over the grave...river's brim • A yellow primrose was to him, But it was nothing more." He would have said, " Why, what should it be but a simple and pretty flower ?... | |
| Harriet Lydia Stevenson - 1864 - 272 Seiten
...march. She must have been the nearest relative in the female line, to the man of whom we are told " A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, But it was nothing more." One of those tiresomely matter of fact persons, who are most provoking, who never... | |
| rev. William John Hocking - 1883 - 416 Seiten
...the fields gay with buttercups and daisies. Unlike the Peter Bell of whom Wordsworth writes — ' ' A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, But it was nothing more," a primrose to Easter spoke volumes. In addition to its being the harbinger of... | |
| Frances Elizabeth Willard - 1889 - 804 Seiten
...of us, as of poor Peter Bell, "In vain through every changeful year Did Nature lead him as before ; A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, But it was nothing more." Father did not " talk religion," as we called it, very much, nor did our mother.... | |
| New Jersey State Bar Association - 1908 - 104 Seiten
...acquainted with nature, its ways, its methods and its story. Surely, one may say the same of Judge Grey : "A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him," but it was infinitely more. It was an expression of God's beauty, of his marvelous handiwork. It was a... | |
| Sean O'Casey - 1957 - 104 Seiten
...catches sight of primroses, in a little vase on the table.) the primrose for instance; you know — a primrose by the river's brim, a yellow primrose was to him, but it was nothing more; though we all actually know all there is to be known about the little primrose.... | |
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