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The Living Age, Volume 252

1907 - 848 pages
...the blue and yellow, species. The unappreciative Peter Bell saw nothing in the primrose but yellow: A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him. And it was nothing more. The more appreciative bee saw in a plain yellow buttercup the possibilities of a blue monk's-hood. The...
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The Living Age, Volume 252

1907 - 850 pages
...the blue and yellow, species. The unappreciatlve Peter Bell saw nothing in the primrose but yellow: A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him. And It was nothing more. The more appreciative bee saw in a plain yellow buttercup the possibilities of a blue monk's-hood. The...
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The worst in the world: or, Night and day. [2 stories].

John Bennett (Publisher.) - 1859 - 316 pages
...between the miller and Catherine Jacobs. This they learnt from one of the miller's men, whom they met 0ii the road at a short distance from the cottage, driving...significantly looked upon the weeping face of his child. " Oh, father," said his heroic daughter, " I know you feel for me. But let them ring on, and...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 29-30

1861 - 790 pages
...who are as destitute of emotional feeling while they do so as the man of whom the poet says : — " A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." The general feeling, however, is as we have stated, and hence the rash of those who can obtain a sufficiency...
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Transactions of the Illinois State Agricultural Society, with ..., Volume 4

Illinois State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1861 - 736 pages
...each with its several properties ; a stone contained, for him, not one impressive lesson, and as for flowers — "A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose, was to him, Arid it was nothing more." ing in, and becoming familiar with Nature in her most secluded haunts,...
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Cosas de España: Illustrative of Spain and the Spaniards as They are, Volume 2

Mrs. Wm. Pitt Byrne - Spain - 1866 - 358 pages
...Far from sharing the naive simplicity of Wordsworth's smock-frocked hero, to whom — " A primrose on the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more," — the Matritenses regard these royal freaks as the most wonderful fairy fabrics that coidd be conjured up...
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 79

1872 - 742 pages
...none others have, would murmur contemptuously at being dragged so far to see " only an old wall." " A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him — And it was nothing more. " The giant stone that has borne the weight of mountain structures, and the heavier weight of centuries,...
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Platt's essays, Volume 2

James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...appreciate the beauties of this world, and not be as soulless as him to whom, as Wordsworth says, " A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." The better faculties inherent in mankind have not been appealed to; men have been told they are fallen,...
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The Health Exhibition Literature. ...

1884 - 690 pages
...always required the intelligent teacher to make those objects of any real service. " A primrose on the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him ; And it was nothing more." The rustic saw the flowers and other surroundings, but he could not interpret any portion of nature around...
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The Health exhibition literature. v. 14, Volume 14

1884 - 732 pages
...always required the intelligent teacher to make those objects of any real service. " A primrose on the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him ; And it was nothing more." The rustic saw the flowers and other surroundings, but he could not interpret any portion of nature around...
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