| 1878 - 396 Seiten
...the beauty by which they are surrounded. Concerning a man of this sort, Wordsworth tells us that — "A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." And as it was with Peter Bell, so it is with thousands. In our first engraving this month, a thoughtful... | |
| Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 Seiten
...the dusty genus have the feelings of a poet, or the eye of a painter, but it may be said of them as of Peter Bell— " A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." The more remarkable, therefore, are the rare exceptions to the rule,... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 Seiten
...the adaptation, of which it is full. Few of us, however, see any more deeply in this respect than did Peter Bell : — " A primrose by a river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." What would we think or say of one who had invented flowers — supposing,... | |
| 1853 - 614 Seiten
...works can learn from them to do the same, and the conferring an additional sense could hardly open u wider avenue for the purest pleasure. A vast amount...execution. It was with some such meaning that Sir James Mackin tosh said to Madame de Stael, 'Wordsworth is not a great poet, but he is the greatest man among... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 Seiten
...and the conferring an additional sense could hardly open a wider avenue for the purest pleasure. Л vast amount of poetry, which is finer, as verse, than...meaning that Sir James Mackintosh said to Madame de Staël, " Wordsworth is not a great poet, but he is the greatest man among poets." In turning negligently... | |
| 1853 - 566 Seiten
...flower. Even the loose stones that cover the highway, I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or Jinked them to some feeling.' Every lover of his works can...strains which succeed in making it something more — L which teach the power of nature, and develop all its resources — have a merit and a use superior... | |
| 1853 - 202 Seiten
...connect the kingdoms of mind and matter, and it may truly be said of the majority as Wordsworth says of Peter Bell :— " A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." There is nothing seen, nothing felt of the infinite power, wisdom, and... | |
| Leitch Ritchie - 1859 - 380 Seiten
...inner nature to our view. Till this is done, we are surrounded only by cold and lifeless forms — (A primrose by a river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more) — and even while storing our .minds with myriads of new facts, we remain motionless as to real refinement... | |
| William Dobson - 1864 - 400 Seiten
...between a maiden-hair fern and a colt's foot, between the scented violet and a common dock. As with Peter Bell, " A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." Nay, so perverse is he on the subject, that he characterises the whole... | |
| Eliza Meteyard - 1865 - 548 Seiten
...CUAP. III. ignorance and apathy of the workers kept them blind, like their celebrated brother-potter, Peter Bell : A primrose by a river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. Pot-works of this kind only produced the very coarsest descriptions of... | |
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