 | 1878
...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
...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
...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
...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...strains which succeed in making it something more — which teach the power of nature, and develop all its resources — have a merit and a use superior... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853
...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...strains which succeed in making it something more — which teach the power of nature, and develop all its resources — have a merit and a use superior... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1853
...A vast amount ol poetry, which is finer, as verse, than many of the effusions of Wordsworth, is MI this account far beneath them in the permanent effects...primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more' — • awl the strains whicli succeed in making it something more —... | |
 | 1853
...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
...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
...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
...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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