| 1884 - 1126 pages
...mariner, whether the radiant be in a lighthouse or in a ship-light. It is truly in light as in love— i " Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! " An exhibition of the new ship-lights with the incandescent lamp was held in London on two evenings... | |
| Royal Entomological Society of London - 1905 - 1072 pages
...such means of defence in insects, and they are numberless, we may apply the words of Browning : — " Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! " It is all the difference in fact between success and failure, between life and death. Comparatively... | |
| 1926 - 750 pages
...who has tried them knows only too well. Indeed, in literature, they are the supreme examples of — Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away! In the George Wyndham tribute Curzon may seem to give his subject too high a place; yet, measured by... | |
| Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...the sounds we heard, The lights and the shades made up a spell Till the trouble grew and stirred. 39. Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! How a sound shall quicken content to bliss, Or a breath suspend the blood's best play, And life be... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1894 - 608 pages
...and show ? To-day I grope in darkness here ; To-morrow I shall know ! CHRISTIAN BUUKB. Jin (tull. " Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! . . . . And life be a proof of this ! " Robert THE room was very still. Nan roused herself from a... | |
| Anne Judith Penny - 1865 - 192 pages
...the smile with which he said it, was a shade less agreeable than his smiles usually were. CHAPTER V. Oh ! the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! How a sound shall quicken content to bliss, Or a breath suspend the blood's best play, And life be... | |
| 1865 - 610 pages
...and the sounds we heard, The lights and the shades made up a spell Till the trouble grew and stirred. Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! How a sound shall quicken content to bliss, Or a breath suspend the blood's best play, And life be... | |
| Annie Keary - 1866 - 326 pages
...interested her ; and her unoccupied imagination wove never-ending webs of fancy round him. CHAPTER VI. 0 the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! How a sound shall quicken content to bliss, Or a breath suspend the blood's best play, And life be... | |
| Robert Hall Baynes - 1871 - 684 pages
...JUST MISSED. BY FLORENCE WILFORD, AUTHOR OP "A MAIDEN OP OUR OWN DAT," "NIGEL BARTRAM'S IDEAL," ETC. " Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! How a sound shall quicken content to bliss, Or a breath suspend the blood's best play, And life be... | |
| Martin Cohn - 1868 - 552 pages
...Leslie ! " " No," she said, sadly and gravely, as she drew her hand away, " I caunot give you that." " Oh, the little more, and how much It is, And the little less, and what worlds away I " He had played his game and lost it ; lost the hope of what he desired, and how much besides? He... | |
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