 | American essays - 1902 - 902 pages
...grave of Dickens : — " Perhaps 't was boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar A...' on English meadows Wandered and lost their way." The extent of the influence which Dickens exercised upon Bret Harte has been much discussed, and the... | |
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1871 - 186 pages
...writ of " Little Nell." Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy — for the reader Was youngest of them all — But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar A...their way. And so in mountain solitudes — o'ertaken As by some spell divine — Their cares dropped from them like the needles shaken Lost is that camp,... | |
 | John Forster - Novelists, English - 1872 - 442 pages
...writ of ' Little Nell:' " Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy,— for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar A...way. " And so in mountain solitudes — o'ertaken As by some spell divine — Their cares dropped from them like the needles shaken From out the gusty... | |
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1880 - 288 pages
...writ of " Little Nell." Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar A...their way. And so in mountain solitudes — o'ertaken As by some spell divine — Their cares drop from them like the needles shaken From out the gusty pine.... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 432 pages
...1871), pp. 32-5. Perhaps twas boyish fancy, — for the reader ' Dickens Was youngest of them all,— But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar A...their way: And so in mountain solitudes — o'ertaken Aa by some spell divine — Their cares dropped from them like the needles shaken From out the gusty... | |
 | Bret Harte - American poetry - 1872 - 410 pages
...writ of "Little Nell." Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar A...their way. And so in mountain solitudes — o'ertaken As by some spell divine — Their cares drop from them like the needles shaken From out the gusty pine.... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1872 - 574 pages
...writ of "Little Nell:" Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall; i LONDON: The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, f ' - "Dickens In... | |
 | Readers - 1884 - 794 pages
...writ of " Little Nell." Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to <all ; The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While t he whole camp,... | |
 | Bret Harte - United States - 1873 - 164 pages
...writ of " Little Nell." Perhaps 't was boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar " A silence seemed to fall; While the whole camp, with " Nell" on English meadows, Wandered and lost their way. And so in mountain... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Novelists, English - 1874 - 336 pages
...writ of " Little Nell." Pei haps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall : The pine-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While the whole camp, with "... | |
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The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows. Listened in every spray, While the whole camp, with " Nell " on English meadows Wandered and lost their way. 
