I SEE the wealthy miller yet, His double chin, his portly size, And who that knew him could forget The busy wrinkles round his eyes ? The slow wise smile that, round about His dusty forehead drily curl'd, Seem'd half- within and half- without, And full... New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 410edited by - 1852Full view - About this book
| 1894 - 792 pages
...The busy wrinkles round his eyes ? The slow wise smile thut, round about His dusty forehead, dryly curled, Seemed half within and half without, And full of dealings with the world." Among tradesmen of a philosophic character, such as cobblers and fishing-rod makers, millers hold a... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...wrinkles round bis eyesl The slow, wise smile, that ronnd about Dis dnsty forehead daily curl'd, Seem'd half within and half without, And full of dealings with the world. There are equally felicitous stanzas m several of his longer poems, which are generally, more than... | |
| 1852 - 526 pages
...for an act of rashness. Our lodgings were in the Via di Condotti, at the corner of the street Santa Maria degli Fiori — a house cheerful enough in the...fraternité, by using their daggers against obnoxious individuals, and by night-encounters with patrols ; some lives had already been lost before our departure,... | |
| Anne Beale - 1852 - 358 pages
...wrinkles round his eyes 1 The slow wise smile that, round about His dusty forehead drily curl'd, Seem'd half within and half without, And full of dealings with the world. TENNYSON. "MAKE so bold," Master Herbert, began the jolly miller, " a word with you." " Willingly,"... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 404 pages
...wrinkles round his eyes ? The slow wise smile that, round about His dusty forehead drily curl'd, Seem'd half- within and half- without, And full of dealings with the world ? In yonder chair I see him sit, Three fingers round the old silver cupI see his gray eyes twinkle... | |
| English fiction - 1879 - 612 pages
...suggested Tennyson's ' Miller' — ' The slow wise smile that round about Mis rosy forehead curled and curled. Seemed half within and half without. And full of dealings with the world.' He believed that he had seen the cards in the Squire's hand, and on the strength of that conviction... | |
| A. P. A. - Acrostics - 1869 - 226 pages
...Is all the boon I ask." 5. "The slow wise , that round about His dusty forehead drily curl'd, Seem'd half within and half without, And full of dealings with the world." 64. " Hermit in solemn cell Wearing out life's evening gray ; Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell What... | |
| Anna Harriette Leonowens - Governesses - 1873 - 346 pages
...the priest of Tamseng might be seen " The slow wise smile, that round about His dusty forehead dryly curled, Seemed half within and half without, And full of dealings with the world." A month after her baptism, Maria, as Bungeah was now named, was selected, on account of her great piety... | |
| 1873 - 718 pages
...liquid rapids of the mill-weir. The vivid picture, too, of the kindly, dusty miller, with his smile that seemed "half within and half without, and full of dealings with the world," which introduces the piece, and suggests the inequality of lot over which this boyish passion was to... | |
| J. Fogerty - 1873 - 338 pages
...wrinkles round his eyes ? The slow wise smile that round about His dusty forehead, drily curl'd, Seem'd half within and half without, And full of dealings with the world ! " TENNYSON. JACOB GRIMSHAW had been the Dale miller over nineteen years. His father had been the... | |
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