 | 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 is with Wordsworth, but in a different... | |
 | 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 is with Wordsworth, but in a different... | |
 | Alexander Balfour - 1830 - 398 pages
...and paid great attention to their progress. WOKDSWORTH says of his many-wived potter Peter Bell, that a primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him ; And it was nothing more." It was very different with the susceptible and sensitive mind of our poet. Associations were woven around... | |
 | 1839 - 630 pages
...in America. This critic must be nearly related to the observing person of whom Wordsworth remarks^ " A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." It would, perhaps, not be too extravagant to say that the poetical resources of our country are boundless.... | |
 | 1839 - 622 pages
...America. This critic must be nearly related .to the observing .pereon of whom Wordsworth remarks.: " A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more." It would, perhaps, not be too extravagant to say that the poetical -resources of our country are boundless.... | |
 | 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 reads the Babes in the Wood. But... | |
 | 1856 - 770 pages
...of nations-^-the real supplies its place, being viewed in that generality, necessity, eternity — call it what you will — which is the condition of...just as in the case of Peter Bell, — "A primrose by tho river's brim, A yellow primrose was to Mm, And It was noUiing mara" It will be observed that, in... | |
 | 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... | |
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A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. 
