 Yearning for the large excitement that the coming years would yield. Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway, near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary...  The New Monthly Belle Assemblée - Page 8Full view - About this book
 | W A Woodley - 1856 - 112 pages
...Sees in heaven the light of London naming like a dreary dawn ; , And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs of men." But Chattel-ton's hopes and excited enthusiasm were not sufficient to sustain him under the disappointments... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Theater - 1859 - 506 pages
...Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring...a dreary dawn; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs of men ; Men, mv brothers,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Essays - 1859 - 432 pages
...Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring...a dreary dawn; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs of men; Men, my brothers,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - Theater - 1859 - 474 pages
...Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs of men; Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new: That which they have done but earnest... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1859 - 636 pages
...Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn." But just what London proves to the eager-hearted boy, life proves to the man. He intended to be Lord... | |
 | 1860 - 634 pages
...Sees in heaven the light of London flaming like a dreary dawn. And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs of men.' • l.ocksley Hall. Take, again, as a further contrast, 'The Day-dream,' that marvel of word-painting,... | |
 | 1860 - 632 pages
...Sees in heaven the light of London flaming like a dreary dawn, And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs of men.' Lcxkslcy Hall. Take, again, as a further contrast,' The Day-dream,' that marvel of word-painting, glittering... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 pages
...Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring...a dreary dawn ; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the throngs of men ; Men, my brothers,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 366 pages
...first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Bees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn ; And his spirit leaps within him to be gone before him then, Underneath the light he looks at, in among the Men, my brothers, men the workers,... | |
 | Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1861 - 472 pages
...Eager-hearted as a boy when first he leaves his father's field, And at night along the dusky highway near and nearer drawn, Sees in heaven the light of London flaring like a dreary dawn. But just what London proves to the eager-hearted boy, life proves to the man. He intended to be Lord... | |
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