| Nicholas John Halpin - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 140
...little flower itself is nothing but a little flower — a real, literal, " little western flower" — a species of pansy commonly known by the name of Love...principal figure of the whole allegorical group before us — the subject of a metamorphosis ushered in by prodigies and of a fate to which deities and queens... | |
| Philip William Perfitt - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...the country, for he saw it not, and had no eye wherewith to see. It was said of Peter Bell that — " A primrose by a river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." It was nothing more to Poinder, unless, indeed, as a machine out of which he could grind so much profit.... | |
| Avary W. Holmes-Forbes - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...boor it will suggest nothing perhaps except its own odour. Wordsworth puts it well when he says, " A primrose by a river's brim a yellow primrose was to him, and it was nothing more." It is this fertility of suggestiveness that constitutes a poetic mind, and the absence of it that causes... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...the Cowslip and Primrose, after which even Sir Joseph Hooker compared himself to Peter Bell, to whom A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. IT OX PLANT LIFE 121 We all, I think, shared the same feeling, and found that the explanation of the flower... | |
| 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...water, are nothing more to the untutored intellect of man than the primrose was to Peter Bell — " A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." It is no small object in view that your purpose is to permeate the mass of people with the desire for... | |
| American Academy of Medicine - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 752
...in after life never rise above the line of mediocrity. Wordsworth said of the bumpkin, Peter Bell, " A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." It conveyed the idea of color, at least, but what suggestion of function or quality is transmitted to... | |
| Union University (Schenectady, N.Y.) - 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...great temple of truth, provided only you get in. In this study then I had passed from the attitude of Peter Bell, of whom the poet tells us, "A primrose by a river's brim, a yellow primrose was to him, and it was nothing more," in the presence of this tiny bit of muscle, — I had passed from this... | |
| Roger Lloyd Kennion - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 480
...sublime Alpine view, a bank aglow with flowery stars, or a more than usually glorious sunset — " A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." It may be that in this particular faculty their evolution has not proceeded far enough. The enjoyment occasioned... | |
| Warren Hilton - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 136
...distinctions and differences that are all-important to the judges in a horse-show. To the unimaginative mind, "a primrose by a river's brim a yellow primrose was to him, and it was nothing more." It revealed none of the marvels that would be so apparent to, say, the poet or the botanist. So far as... | |
| 1918 - عدد الصفحات: 832
...with much more readiness than to an ordinary sensory impression. Wordsworth's Peter Bell found that " A primrose by a river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." It is obvious that the essential thing which Peter Bell lacked was not sensory acuity. He probably saw... | |
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