 | American essays - 1902 - 902 pages
...Western pine," which he laid upon the grave of Dickens : — " Perhaps 't was boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he...' on English meadows Wandered and lost their way." The extent of the influence which Dickens exercised upon Bret Harte has been much discussed, and the... | |
 | John Forster - 1872 - 432 pages
...Harte (Boston : Osgood & Co. 1871), pp. 32-5. Perhaps twas boyish fancy, — for the reader ' Dickens Was youngest of them all,— But, as he read, from...their way: And so in mountain solitudes — o'ertaken Aa by some spell divine — Their cares dropped from them like the needles shaken From out the gusty... | |
 | John Forster - Authors, English - 1872 - 574 pages
...read aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of "Little Nell:" Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he...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
...read aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell." Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he...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
...aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell." Perhaps 't was boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he...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... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Novelists, English - 1874 - 336 pages
...aloud the 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...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 "... | |
 | California - 1875 - 592 pages
...read aloud the book wherein the master Had writ of -Little Nell.' "Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy — for the reader Was youngest of them all — ' But, as...spray, While the whole camp with ' Nell' on English meaJOwl Wandered and lost their way. ***** " Lost is that camp, and wasted all its fire. And he who... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Novelists, English - 1875 - 348 pages
...read aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell." Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he...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 - 162 pages
...aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell." Perhaps 't was boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he...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... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1875 - 164 pages
...read aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell." Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he...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... | |
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twas boyish fancy—for the reader Was youngest of them all— But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall: The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While the whole camp, with "Nell" on English... 
