| 1852 - 776 pages
...common, natural beauties around her daily path. Why should she resemble the man of whom the poet says — "A primrose, by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And nothing more," when nearly everything she sees might be the means of calling up beautiful and useful spiritual associations... | |
| American literature - 1856 - 704 pages
...which was open, into the woods, but his was a mind like that of Wordsworth's Peter, " A primrose, on the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And nothing more." Ho did not find any inspiration in the woods, so he began to look into the ashes. " Miss Cynthia,"... | |
| 1856 - 704 pages
...which was open, into the woods, buV his was a mind like that of Werdsworth's Peter, " A primrose, on the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And nothing more." Ho did not find any inspiration in the woods, so he began to look into the ashes. " Miss Cynthia,"... | |
| A. De Puy Van Buren - Southern States - 1859 - 336 pages
...else. For our poets are half politicians, tradesmen or bankers. It can scarcely be said of them — "A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him And nothing more." Instead of finding "pansies for thoughts," it is — " Dimes and dollars, dollars and dimes." And when,... | |
| Iowa State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1902 - 650 pages
...say, the owner did not know the name of a single apple in his orchard. An apple to him was like the "primrose by the river's brim, a yellow primrose was to him, and nothing more." He knew that they were apples, and mighty good ones, but farther than that he knew not. 1 found his... | |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Sermons, English - 1875 - 854 pages
...human lite the range is very narrow. Wordsworth's ploughman had no great abundance of life, for " The primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And nothing more." To plough and sow, and reap and mow, were his philosophy. The seasons preached no sacred homilies to... | |
| 1876 - 396 pages
...officer, the symbols of Masonry would convey no moral lesson — no idea — no obligation. "A primrose on the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And nothing more." LITTLE THINGS IN MASONRY. 355 The trowel and the plumb would be but the implements of a laborious profession,.... | |
| Margaret Plues - Botany - 1879 - 422 pages
...air it breathes." And when he wishes to paint the extreme of insensibility, he writes : — ' ' The Primrose by the river's brim A yellow Primrose was to him, And nothing more." Howitt, too, celebrates its praises, and, with a heart yearning over the weary little children in our... | |
| Charles Wilkins - Wales - 1885 - 720 pages
...pointed this out to my companion riding by my side, but never was there a better illustration of — A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And nothing more. For all I got was, " That's all very well, but the sight of a good piece of beef would be more to my... | |
| Lawrence Brooke - 1882 - 270 pages
...Then she tried him with ' Peter Bell,' dwelling with peculiar emphasis upon the wellknown lines — ' A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And nothing more.' And here Sir Timothy's wrath fairly boiled over. He had endured much at the hands of the muse, but... | |
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