...see no beauty in the v«ry fairest of God's works. Alas, for the stolid gazer! — " A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more." But if the earth does not touch man, let him look on the waters; see them as they are plated by the...

...Genius to explain. On the contrary, it may well be said of the prosaic matter-of-fact person : — " A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more." But the poet finds in it a hidden meaning, and a beauty which he feels, but can never fully express....

...Turner have no charm for him, and the reason is because he has no eyes to see the soul of things. " A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more." Surely man was not made to be a grovelling worm of the dust, a mere money-making machine, with no loftier...

...factory. We are too often like the rustic, who can see nothing to admire in nature's beauty. " The primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him. And it is nothing more." But examine the machinery, and we find the bowels of the earth have contributed iron or brass ; the...

...factory. We are too often like the rustic, who can see nothing to admire in nature's beauty. " The primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more." But examine the machinery, and we find the bowels of the earth have contributed iron or brass ; the...

...farther ; for there are no associations ready to carry him off in any other direction. A primrose by a river's brim, A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more. Every word expresses its one meaning to which he adheres with provoking correctness ; the contrasts...

...factory. We are too often like the rustic, who can see nothing to admire in nature's beauty. " The primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him. And it ia nothing more." But examine the machinery, and we find the bowels of the earth have contributed iron...

...outward appearance ; while in the stupid animal-nature of another the words of the poet are verified, — A. primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more. There is evidence that besides heing endowed with the faculties which blossomed so pleasantly and bore...

...outward appearance ; while in the stupid animal-nature of another the words of the poet are verified, — A primrose by the river's brim, A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more. There is evidence that besides being endowed with the faculties which blossomed so pleasantly and bore...

...in vain do the heavens spread out their glory, and in vain the earth unfolds her loveliness, if "' A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more." To these skeletons is added, perhaps, the casual and certainly the most common skeleton of all : in...