 SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one : The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun.  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 559edited by - 1854Full view - About this book
 | 1869 - 182 pages
...Roses. BOUQUET. PLEASURES are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. BURNS. SMALL service is true service while it lasts, Of friends,...casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. WORDSWORTH. WEARIED infants on earth's gentle breeze, In every nook the little wild flowers slept.... | |
 | Aesop - 1869 - 308 pages
...increasing infirmities, they are, in old age, neither deserted nor unprovided for. i6o Small service is Irue service, while it lasts ; Of friends, however humble,...casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. The owner of the Old Hound in this fable will not have many imitators. The instances will be very rare... | |
 | Eliza Meteyard - 1869 - 460 pages
...what conceals ; Never to blend our pleasure or our pride, With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. Small service is true service while it lasts : Of...however humble, scorn not one. The daisy, by the shadow which it casts, Reflects the lingering dewdrop from the sun." Three or four days after Mr Flaxdale's... | |
 | 1869 - 390 pages
...from -: ruin was early rising. SMALL service is great service while it last*, Of deeds the humblest scorn not one ; The daisy by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the 121 EASTER EGGS. By Anna Wilmot. ISTER GRACE!" "What do you want?" Sister Grace did not lift her eyes... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 pages
...year, Kefltct on me as on the dead, And think my heart is buried here. WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF A CHILD. Small service is true service while it lasts, Of Friends,...casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. Southwell, the Jesuit, in Qnecn Elizabeth's reign, has some stanzas ou the theme, " Scorn not the Lem-t,"... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...year, BeftVct on me as on the dead. And think my heart is buried here. WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF A CHILD. Small service is true service while it lasts, Of Friends,...casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. Southwell, the Jesuit, in Queen Elizabeth's reign, has some stanzas on the theme, " Scorn not the Least,"... | |
 | 584 pages
...foreign lande, always acting in accordance with the sonso of the following lines : ' Small service ia true service while it lasts ; Of friends, however...by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew drops from the sun.' " The official hotels in Paris are, as a rule, splendid mansions, well—... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1870 - 424 pages
...Quill in nn.] SMALL service is true service while it lasts : Of humblest Friends, bright Creature! scorn not one: The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. VOL. IV. AA xvin. LINES WRITTEH IH THE ALBUM OF THE COUNTESS OF LONSDALE. NOV. 5, 1834. [THIS is a... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1871 - 678 pages
...glory breaks ; Love triumphs over all, and man shall be Pure image then of what his soul partakes. WMF SMALL service is true service while it lasts ; Of friends, however humble, spurn not one : The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...IN HER ALBUM. SMALL service is true service while it lasts . Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn not one ; The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts. Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. 1834. XV. LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OP THE COUNTESS OF LON'SDALE, NuV. 5, 1834. LADY ! a Pen (perhaps... | |
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