| Beautiful poetry - 1854 - 432 ページ
...affinity. ROGERS. SERVICES. Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of friends, however humble, scorn not one ; The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. WORDSWOBTH. POWER OP MIND. It wants but effort of the active mind To people Earth and Heaven with ministering... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1897 - 346 ページ
...flowers, I may quote this pleasing quatrain, composed impromptu for Miss Dora Quillinan's album : — Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of humblest friends, bright creature, acorn not one ! The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun.... | |
| 1855 - 1226 ページ
...country. What says Wordsworth ? "Small service is true service while it lasts, Of friends however humble, scorn not one ; The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun." NOT the big man, who, on hearing little Amy mention the name of their common friend, Bernard Carlyon,... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 ページ
...all his human characters. " Small service is true service while it lasts, Of friends, however humble, scorn not one ; The daisy — by the shadow that it casts — Protects a lingering dew-drop from the sun." .* • The remarks of Mr. Buskin may not be inappropriately quoted,... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 ページ
...FRIENDSHIP. — Wordsworth. Small service is truo service while it lasts ; Of friends, however humble, scorn not one : The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop" from the sun. 3. — COMFORT IN ADVERSITY. — Southey, Mcthinks, if ye would know How visitations of calamity A... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 164 ページ
...THE HELP OF THE HUMBLE. SMALL service is true service while it lasts ; Of friends, however humble, scorn not one : The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun. THE PRUSSIAN GENERAL ON THE RHINE. 'T WAS on the Rhine the armies lay : — To France or not ? Is 't... | |
| Julia Cecilia Stretton - 1857 - 326 ページ
...and young. CHAPTER XXII. " Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of friends, however humble, scorn not one ; The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun." WORDSWORTH. PHEBE and I, with Moss, Serjeant, and Mrs. White, all went to the funeral. We wished him... | |
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1857 - 460 ページ
...CHAPTEE XXXIV. Wyt iiial. " Small service is true service, while it lasts ; Of friends, however humble, scorn not one. The daisy by the shadow that it casts Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun." — WOHDSWOBTH. APTEB getting his bail accepted for Max Cliflbrd, Archibald sent him to his sister,... | |
| 1857 - 734 ページ
...Small service is true service while it lasta ; Of all thy friends, though humble, scorn not one ; Tha daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. THREE hungry travellers found a bag of gold ; One ran into town where bread was sold. He thought, I... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 488 ページ
...FRIENDSHIP. — Wordsworth. Small service is true service while it lasts ; Of friends, however humble, scorn not one : The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop33 from the tun. 3. — COKFOKT IN ADVERSITY. — Southey. Met! links, if ye would know How... | |
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