 ... dead men's graves. Creeping where grim death has been, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Whole ages have fled and their works decayed And nations have scattered been; But the stout old Ivy shall never fade, From its hale and hearty green. The brave...  The Works of Charles Dickens - Page 39by Charles Dickens - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dickens - Men - 1837 - 934 pages
...plant in its lonely days, Shall fatten upon the past : For the stateliest building man can raise, ls the Ivy's food at last. Creeping on, where time has...repeated these lines a second time, to enable Mr. Suodgrass to note them down, Mr. Pickwick perused the lineaments of his face with an expression of... | |
 | Charles Dickens - England - 1838 - 440 pages
...days, Shall fatten upon the past: For the stateliest building man can raise, Is the Ivy's food at lost. Creeping on, where time has been, A rare old plant...repeated these lines a second time, to enable Mr. Snpdgrass to note them down, Mr. Pickwick perused the lineaments of his face with an expression of... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1849 - 746 pages
...plant. in its lonely days, Chali fatten upon the past : For the stateliest building man can raise /o the Ivy's food at last. Creeping on, where time has...lineaments of his face with an expression of great inU-e^t. The old gentleman having concluded his dictation, and Mr. Snodgrass having returned his notebook... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1854 - 388 pages
...never fade, From its hale and hearty green. The biave old plant, in its lonely days, (Shall fatten upon the past : For the stateliest building man can raise...lineaments of his face with an ; expression of great inte-e-st. The old genj tleman having concluded his dictation, and Mr. Snodgrass having returned his... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 1178 pages
...never fade, From its hale and hearty green. The brave old plant in its lonely days, Shall fatten upon the past: For the stateliest building man can raise,...green. "While the old gentleman repeated these lines n second time, to enable Mr. Snodgrass to note them down, Mr Pickwick perused the lineaments of his... | |
 | R. A. Hammond - Authors, English - 1871 - 450 pages
...never fade, From its hale and hearty green. The brave old plant in its lonely days, Shall fasten upon the past : For the stateliest building man can raise,...time has been, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. NIAGARA. I think in every quiet season nowj Still do these waters roll, .and leap, and roar, And tumble,... | |
 | Shirley Hibberd - Araliaceae - 1872 - 142 pages
...never fade, From its hale and hearty green. The brave old plant in its lonely days, Shall fatten upon the past : For the stateliest building man can raise,...time has been, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. 'r s I V.— THE CULTIVATION OF THE IVY " Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep,... | |
 | Shirley Hibberd - Ivy - 1872 - 148 pages
...never fade, From its hale and hearty green. The brave old plant in its lonely days, Shall fatten upon the past : For the stateliest building man can raise,...Creeping on, where time has been, A rare old plant is th« Ivy green. J } % £ * V.— THE CULTIVATION OF THE IVY. " Uere are cool mosses deep, And thro'... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - 408 pages
...shall never fade From its hale and hearty green. The brave old plant in its lonely days Shall fatten on the past ; For the stateliest building man can raise...time has been, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. * See p. 28, " Fifth Reader." THE SICK CHILD.— Charles Dichens* SOME years ago, being in Scotland,... | |
 | Phebe Ann Hanaford - Novelists, English - 1871 - 424 pages
...never fade From its hale and hearty green. The brave old plant in its lonely days Shall fatten upon the past ; For the stateliest building man can raise...time has been, A rare old plant is the ivy green." One of the humorous sketches in " Pickwick" is that well-known and oft-quoted description of Sam Weller's... | |
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