 | 1856 - 838 pages
...individuals or of nations — the real is all in all ; and it is nothing but the real, just as in the case of Peter Bell, — " A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." It. will be observed that; hi contrasting the two poles of realism,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 648 pages
...The meanest flower that blows, can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears ;' while, with Peter Bell, ' A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.' It was with Bloomfield as with Peter Bell ; it was with Milton as it... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 pages
...The meanest flower that blows, can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears ;' while, with Peter Bell, ' A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.' It was with Bloomfield as with Peter Bell ; it was with Milton as it... | |
 | George Moore - 1852 - 428 pages
...closely into the meek and tender beauties about you, lest you should be no more of a philosopher than Peter Bell: — " A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." And yet it is a keen preacher, and quietly upbraids us all with want... | |
 | GEORGE MOORE - 1852 - 466 pages
...closely into the meek and tender beauties about you, lest you should be no more of a philosopher than Peter Bell : — " A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." And yet it is a keen preacher, and quietly upbraids us all with want... | |
 | Lingual reader - 1853 - 222 pages
...and weep ; live and die. Who asks what is in it? in a smile? in a tear? The most of children are like Peter Bell. "A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him ; And it was nothing more." It is just so with reading. Who asks what is in it? George reads. He... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 416 pages
...being wet-shod. We have heard more blockheads than one ask the meaning of those often quoted lines in Peter Bell — " A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." Such sumphs cannot conceive how it should be anything more to anybody... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 432 pages
...being wet-shod. We have heard more blockheads than one ask the meaning of those often quoted lines in Peter Bell — " A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." Such sumphs cannot conceive how it should be anything more to anybody... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 412 pages
...being wet-shod. We have heard more blockheads than one ask the meaning of those often quoted lines in Peter Bell — " A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." Such sumphs cannot conceive how it should be anything more to anybody... | |
 | 1068 pages
...presumptuous lays, and such passages were selected for denunciation or ridicule as : ' ' A primrose on the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." Nor did the exquisite " Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the... | |
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A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. 
