 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...all-shunn'd poverty, Walks, like contempt, alone. — Shakespeare. 1391. FRIENDS : must be honoured. Then obstinate self-will confirms him so. Tell him he wanders ; that his dewdrop from the sun. Wordsworth. 1392. FRIENDS. Parting of FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...— Ibid. — 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. WOKDSWORTH, To a Child. — The poet's darling.— Ibid., To the Daisy. —... | |
 | William Davidson (B.A.), Joseph Crosby Alcock - Analysis (Philosophy) - 1877 - 240 pages
...immortality. 17. 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. 1 8. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own : He... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...brother kind ! WALLER. Friendship has a power To soothe affliction in her darkest hour. II. KIRKE WHITE. Small service is true service while it lasts; Of friends,...The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the ling'ring dewdrop from the sun. WORDSWORTH. They drop apace; by nature some decay; And some the blasts... | |
 | William Walters - 1878 - 128 pages
...album, — 4 ' 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." Every man should be his brother's keeper, and should seek to promote his brother's... | |
 | 1879 - 396 pages
...muttering, in a singsong tone, the following lines from one of his favourite poets : ' Small service ia true service while it lasts, Of friends however humble...by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun.' But with all this mental wandering, he kept steadily on, ambling down the footpath... | |
 | Thomas Edie Hill - Business - 1879 - 398 pages
...all to me. PURCHASE not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such •I will cease to love. SMALL service is true service while it lasts; Of friends,...not one : The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Proltcls the lingering dew-drop from the sun. OLD Time will end our story, Bxit no time, if we end... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1879 - 142 pages
...grew and ripened — all because the first little raindrop said it would try to do what it could. " Small service is true service while it lasts : Of...however humble, scorn not one; The daisy, by the shadow which it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun." wither, to dry up. droop, to hang down.... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 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. EXTEMPORE EFFUSION UPON THE DEATH OF JAMES HOGG. NOVEMBER, 1835. WHEN first,... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1880 - 330 pages
...each day's car* ; Nor gain, from past or future, skill To bear, and to forbear ! WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM. SMALL service is true service while- it lasts ; Of...it casts, Protects the lingering dew drop from the sun. INSCRIPTION INTENDED FOR A STONE IN THE GROUNDS OF RYDAL MOUNT. IN these fair vales hath many... | |
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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. 
