 | 1874 - 532 pages
...nodungot my own but the string which binds them." He was a brute, U Drummond ! But can «ou mía this? " Have you seen but a bright lily grow ^ Before rude hands have touched it ?J Hnvc you marked but the full of the snow Before the soil hath smutched it ? Have you... | |
 | Mary Cecil Hay - 1874 - 308 pages
...sight—- That they still were to run by her side, Through swords, through seas, whither she would ride. Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touched it? Have you marked but the fall of the snow Before the soil hath smutched it ? Have you felt... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 484 pages
...the face; As alone, there triumphs to the life, All the gain, all the good, of the elements strife! Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude...hands have touch'd it ? Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutch'd it ? Have you felt the wool of the beaver ? Or swan's down... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 pages
...the resurrection. Mark in the following piece by him the elastic, pellucid elegance of his diction: " Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touch'd it ? Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow Before the soil hath smutch'd it? Have you felt the wool of the beaver, Or swan's-down... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet have made no flowers. MARY HOWITT. Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touch'd it ? BEN JONSON. Bring flowers to crown the cup and lute, — Bring flowers — the bride is near ; Bring... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 488 pages
...the face; As alone, there triumphs to the life, All the gain, all the good, of the elements strife! Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have toucKd it ? Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow, Before tJie soil hath smutch d it ? Have you... | |
 | Gerhard E. Penning - 1875 - 146 pages
...same manner as the German »nur« and the French »ne . . . que« may be used. — Have you but seen a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touch'd it? Have you marked but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutch'd it ! ... O so white ! O so soft ! O... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 494 pages
...the face; As alone, there triumphs to the life, All the gain, all the good, of the elements strife! Have you seen but a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have toucKd it ? Have you mark'd but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutcKd it ? Have you felt... | |
 | Hermann Varnhagen - 1876 - 80 pages
...same manner as the German »jjur< and the French »ne . . . quet may be used. — Have you but seen a bright lily grow, Before rude hands have touch'd it? Have you marked but the fall of the snow, Before the soil hath smutch'd it ! ... 0 so white ! O so soft ! O... | |
 | Henry Kingsley - 1876 - 340 pages
...bees, some like vague gaudy butterflies. He was a brute, says Drummond ! But can he match this ? " Have you seen but a bright lily grow Before rude hands have touched it ? Have you marked but the fall of the snowBefore the soil hath smutched it ? Have you felt... | |
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Or the nard in the fire ? Or have tasted the bag of the bee ? O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she! From... 
