 | 1850 - 772 σελίδες
...verses by that most eccentric of poets, Robert Browning. They hare more bad feeling than poetry— " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for...Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost as the others she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs... | |
 | 470 σελίδες
...LEADER. " Just for a handful of silver he left ui, Just for a ribband to stick in his coat — Got the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all...lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs, who so little allowed : How all our copper had gone for his service... | |
 | 1849 - 600 σελίδες
...three weeks, Was getting by heart." Very spirited is the next song, " The Lost Leader," commencing, " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat :" — And containing these fine lines, (despite their falsity, for if there ever was a literary aristocrat,... | |
 | 1849 - 602 σελίδες
...weeks, Was getting by heart." Very spirited is the next song, " The Lost Leader," commencing, " Jupt for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat :" — And containing these fine lines, (despite their falsity, for if there ever was a literary aristocrat,... | |
 | 1849 - 1052 σελίδες
...three weeks, Was getting by heart." Very spirited is the next song, "The Lost Leader," commencing,— " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in hit coat:"— And containing these fine lines, (despite their falsity, for if there ever was a literary... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 σελίδες
...righteous and wise — If 'tis proper, Scirocco should vanish In black from the skies ! THE LOST LEADER. i. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for...lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was their's who so little allowed : How all our copper had gone for his service... | |
 | 1883 - 676 σελίδες
...not quote v. ¡Ui military precision. His lordship, like the rest ol us, must verify. А. Б. F, " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in Lis coat," will be found in a poem of Robert Browning's callee Tht Loit Leader, of which they are the... | |
 | 1850 - 824 σελίδες
...verses by that most eccentric of poets, Robert Browning. They have more bad feeling than poetry— "Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to slick in his coal — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost as tho others she lets us... | |
 | 1851 - 534 σελίδες
...expression; we do not meet with many verses in Mr, Browu ing's volumes that read off so flowingly :— •THE LOST LEADER. ' Just for a handful of silver he left us, Lost all the others she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, Just for... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 794 σελίδες
...beyond it the Chaplaincy to the Queen ! How much more tragical, sometimes, Life is than Death ! Another Lost Leader : " Just for a handful of silver he left...bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote." Yet we thank the publishers for promptly producing these Miscellanies. It is a high mead of praise... | |
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JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little... 
