 ... painted The ruddy tints of health On haggard face and form that drooped and fainted In the fierce race for wealth. Till one arose, and from his pack's scant treasure A hoarded volume drew. And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear...  The Overland Monthly - Page 5381875Full view - About this book
 | John Forster - 1842 - 450 pages
...hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew ; And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...book wherein the Master Had writ of « Little Nell: " * Ptma. Bj Bret Harte (Boston : Osgood 4 Co. 1871), pp. 32 5. Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1913 - 112 pages
...continue to do so. They contrast strangely with Bret Harte's beautiful lines in ' Dickens in Camp ' : 'And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...book wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell." ' May I, with all loyalty to Swinburne, say that it is necessary for a person to have had a much wider... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1872 - 574 pages
...A hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew; And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...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
...listless leisure, And then, while round (hem shadows gathered f.tster, And as the firelight Jell, lie read aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of...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
...fierce race for wealth ; And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew; And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell." Perhaps 't was boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from clustering... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Novelists, English - 1874 - 336 pages
...A hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew. And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...book wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell." Pei haps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Novelists, English - 1875 - 346 pages
...A hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew. And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...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 "... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1875 - 164 pages
...fierce race for wealth ; And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew; And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...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... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - American poetry - 1875 - 392 pages
...hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew ; And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...wherein the Master Had writ of "Little Nell." Perhaps 't was boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he rend, from clustering... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1875 - 162 pages
...fierce race for wealth ; And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew; And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell." Perhaps 't was boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from clustering... | |
| |
