 | 1850 - 772 pages
...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... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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...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 ! Rags — were they purple,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1883 - 676 pages
...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... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 824 pages
...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... | |
 | Christianity - 1851 - 534 pages
...the others she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat— Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, So much was theirs who so little allow'd: How all our copper had gone for his service! Rags—were... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - American periodicals - 1860 - 794 pages
...Chaplaincy to the Queen ! How much more tragical, sometimes, Life is than Death ! Another Lost Leader : " Just for a handful of silver he left us — Just for...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... | |
 | Emile Daurand Forgues - Authors, English - 1860 - 400 pages
...facultés, et cette science spéciale, qui régle la distribution d'un ouvrage, ménage habilement 1 Just for a handful of silver he left us, , Just for a riband to stick in his coat, — etc. l'action, taille les scènes à la mesure qu'elles doivent avoir, équilibre les rôles, prévient... | |
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LOST LEADER 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... 
