...represented under the guise of Peter Bell, as one whom the ordinary sights of nature could not affect ; — ' A primrose by a river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.' ' The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart, — he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky.'...

...or to admire. They are precisely in the predicament of Peter Bell, of whom the Poet hath recorded, that "A primrose by a river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." These oft-parodied lines, simple though they be, contain within them...

...bats to 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...

...of the most pleasing kind to every one except such as Wordsworth's hero, of whom the poet says— " A primrose by a river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him ; And it was nothing more." The common Knot-grass (Polygomtm avicitlan), in its varied forms abounds beside the habitations of mankind,...

...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, and high amongst these must we place...

...beauty of 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...

...closed to, oblivious of, much of its widespread beauty. Peter Bell is father of a large family. ' ' A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him And it was nothing more. The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart ; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky !"—...

...strews the path." And the sketch is suggestive of Wordsworth's oftquoted idea, in " Peter Bell :" " A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." THE PRIMROSE. MRS. HEMANS. I SAW it in my evening walk, A little lonely flower ; Under a hollow bank it...

...always lurking that which is not commonplace. In speaking of the common observer, Wordsworth tells us that "A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." But to Wordsworth himself it was a good deal more. It had for him suggestions...

...the much discussed lines :— " In vain through every changeful year Did Nature lead him as before : A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." The idea is not only poetical, but philosophically true. Wordsworth, indeed, has often been described as...