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" I crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a certain use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about: For there I picked up on the heather, And there I put inside my breast A moulted feather, an eagle-feather... "
The Story of Our Bible - Page 89
by Harold Bruce Hunting - 1914 - 317 pages
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...laughter 1 I crossed a moor with a name of its own, And a use in the world, no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about...feather, an eagle feather — Well, I forget the rest.' uu Sh I s ARCHBISHOP ABBOT'S LAST HUNT. On the 4th of August 1621, Mr John Chamberlain writing, as...
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Men and Women

Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 pages
...the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about — 4. For there I picked up on the heather And there I put inside my breast A moulted feather, an eagle-feather — Well, I forget the rest. ANDREA DEL SARTO. (CALLED "THE FAULTLESS PAIXTEE.") BUT...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 53

1884 - 882 pages
...them ; but somehow the persons themselves keep a place in our memory, and even in our affection. " I crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a certain...there I put inside my breast, A moulted feather, an caylc-feather ! Well, I forget the rest." Since we cannot ask birds for an explanation of their conduct,...
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Lyrics of life [selected poems].

Robert Browning - 1866 - 120 pages
...laughter ! I crossed a moor with a name of its own And a use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about,...there I put inside my breast A moulted feather, an eagle-feather, — Well, I forget the rest. AFTER. 'THAKE the cloak from his face, and at first _L...
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Harper's Magazine, Volume 38

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1869 - 900 pages
...! " I crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a nse in the world no donbt ; Yet a hand'B-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about ; " For there I picked np on the heather, And there I put inside my breast, A moulted feather, an eagle-feather — Well,...
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Scribners Monthly, Volume 5

1873 - 828 pages
...its own And a place in the world, no doubt : But a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the bleak miles round about ; For there I picked up on the heather...there I put inside my breast A moulted feather — an eagle's feather — Well, I forget the rest. BROWNING. THERE is a strong spice of hero-worship in average...
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Companion Poets: Illustrated. Longfellow's Household Poems. Tennyson's Songs ...

1871 - 314 pages
...laughter ! I crossed a moor with a name of its own And a use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about,...up on the heather And there I put inside my breast AFTER. '"T'AKE the cloak from his face, and at first JL Let the corpse do its worst. How he lies in...
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Selections from [his] Poetical Works

Robert Browning - 1874 - 372 pages
...the world, no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about : IV. For there I picked up on the heather And there I put inside my breast A moulted feather, an eagle-feather ! Well, I forget the rest. APPARENT FAILURE. "We shall soon lose a celebrated building."...
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The Elements of Rhetoric

James De Mille - 1878 - 584 pages
...last. It is a sudden pause in the course of a sentence by which the conclusion is left unexpressed : "For there I picked up on the heather, And there I put within my breast, A moulted feather, an eagle's feather — Well— I forget the rest."— BROWNING....
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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning ...

Robert Browning - 1879 - 324 pages
...crossed a moor, with a name of its own And a certain use in the world no doubt, Yet a hand's-breadth of it shines alone 'Mid the blank miles round about...up on the heather And there I put inside my breast POPULARITY. I. STAND still, true poet that you are ! I know you ; let me try and draw you. Some night...
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