 | Edward N. Marks - 1852 - 78 pages
...antidote to ennui, but they were written at the request of private, and ofttimes humble, friends; for " Small service is true service while it lasts, Of friends,...The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the ling'ring dew-drop from the sun." Designed solely for those of my own immediate circle of acquaintance,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...to so much sweetness, However dangerous, in your favour finds A wished and glorious end. Massinger. Small service is true service while it lasts, Of friends...by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. Wordsworth. SERVILE. YET as winds sing through a hollow tree, And, (since it... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1854 - 664 pages
...the toll-bar between Aspen Court and Lord Rookbury's seat in the country. What says Wordsworth ? " Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of...by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun." Now the big man, who, on hearing little Amy mention the name of their common... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 pages
...But wins the heart, and wakes the social sigh, With every claim of close affinity. ROGERS. SERVICES. Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of...by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. WORDSWOBTH. POWER OP MIND. It wants but effort of the active mind To people... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1854 - 384 pages
...IN HER ALBUM. SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. 1834. XVIII. LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF THE COUNTESS OF LONSDALE. NOV. 6,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1897 - 346 pages
...album : — Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of humblest friends, bright creature, acorn not one ! The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. Now Tennyson's poem " The Daisy " is merely an interesting description in verse... | |
 | 1855 - 1226 pages
...at the toll-bar between Aspen Court and Lord Rookbury's seat in the country. What says Wordsworth ? "Small service is true service while it lasts, Of...by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun." NOT the big man, who, on hearing little Amy mention the name of their common... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 556 pages
...sweetness, might form a not inappropriate introduction to the study of all his human characters. " Small service is true service while it lasts, Of friends,...daisy — by the shadow that it casts — Protects a lingering dew-drop from the sun." * • The remarks of Mr. Buskin may not be inappropriately quoted,... | |
 | Shirley Brooks - English fiction - 1856 - 518 pages
...the hour of need at the toll-bar between Aspen Court and Lord Rookbury's seat in the country. " Smatl service is true service while it lasts; Of friends,...The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the tingering dew-drops from the sun." Now, the big man, who, on hearing little Amy mention the name of... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 164 pages
...Hill give up their sheeted regiments to the defence of the Union ! EVERETT. THE HELP OF THE HUMBLE. SMALL service is true service while it lasts ; Of...by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. THE PRUSSIAN GENERAL ON THE RHINE. 'T WAS on the Rhine the armies lay : —... | |
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SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. 
