 | Frederick Saunders, Minnie K. Davis - 1899 - 743 頁
...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...firelight fell, He read aloud the book wherein the Master Has writ of " Little Nell." Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy ; for the reader Was youngest of them all ;... | |
 | 1901
...his work just such genuine, absorbing entertainment as that of the miners in the familiar poem : " Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall; * * * * * " And so in mountain solitudes — o'ertaken As by some spell divine — Their cares dropped... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1027 頁
...from hands of listless leisure To hear the tale anew ; And then, while round them shadows gather'd rushing, Waft the leaves that are serest ; But our...flower was in flushing When blighting was nearest. Fl Perhajw 'twax boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read, from... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1902
...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,...Listened in every spray, While the whole camp, with tt Nell w on English meadows Wandered and lost their way. And so in mountain solitudes, o'ertaken As... | |
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1902
...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,...fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — Printed by permission of the publishers, Ilouglmm, Mifflin & Co., Boston. BRET HAR'I'E But, as... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1902
...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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Edgar Pemberton - 1902 - 313 頁
...always gentlesouled and trusting child. She made us think, as Bret Harte has sweetly put it, that we " Read aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of ' Little Nell,' " and she took us by the hand until, " on English meadows," her audiences "Wandered and lost their... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1903
...in the exquisite poem, that "spray of Western pine," which he laid upon the grave of Dickens: — " Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall ; While the whole camp with ' Nell' on English meadows Wandered and lost their way." The extent of... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904
...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,...— But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar The fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While the whole camp, with... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1904
...hoarded volume drew, And cards .vere 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." — HARTE, FRANCIS BRET, 1870, Dickens in Camp. In the "Old Curiosity Shop" was created the character... | |
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... 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... 
