 | William Chauncey Bartlett - 1883 - 268 ページ
...Camp." The rude miners around the camp-fire drop their cards as one of them draws forth a book : " And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...Had writ of 'Little Nell.' " Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy—for the reader Was youngest of them all— But, as he read, from clustering pine and cedar... | |
 | 1883 - 528 ページ
...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,...aloud the book wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell."t Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy, — for the reader Was youngest of them all, — But, as he read,... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1886 - 332 ページ
...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,...fir-trees, gathering closer in the shadows, Listened m(,every spray, While the whole camp, with " Nell " on English meadows Wandered and lost their way.... | |
 | Frederic George Kitton - 1886 - 580 ページ
...a party of settlers round a camp-fire in the wilds of California. The fourth verse runs thus : — And then, while round them shadows gathered faster,...book wherein the Master Had writ of " Little Nell." Mr. Forster, in his Life of Charles Dklxns, says of this production : — " There is hardly any form... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 ページ
...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,...silence seemed to fall ; The fir-trees, gathering oloser in the shadows, Listened in every spray, While the whole camp, with " Nell," on English meadows... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1890 - 458 ページ
...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... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - 1890 - 640 ページ
...hoarded volume drew, And cards were dropped from hands of listless leisure, To hear the tale anew;, Ana then, while round them shadows gathered faster, And...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... | |
 | Brinton Webb Woodward - 1890 - 336 ページ
...who produced from "his pack's scant treasure," a "hoarded volume" of Charles Dickens — the Story of Little Nell: " Perhaps 'twas boyish fancy— for the reader Was youngest of them ail— But as he read, from clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall ; The flr-trees, gathering... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1892 - 332 ページ
...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,...clustering pine and cedar A silence seemed to fall ; Dickens in Camp. 203 The fir-trees, gathering closer In the shadows, Listened in. every spray, While... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1892 - 730 ページ
...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, — The death of Little Nell had also a painful effect on Macready, as the following extracts from... | |
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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... 
