| 1875 - 610 sivua
...canopy. They are twin plants of the forest, and are identified with its growth. ' For the tender beech and the sapling oak, That grow by the shadowy rill,...either oak or beech To be aught but a greenwood tree.' We like Mr. Peacock's poetry the best when it is most unstudied and least pretentious. His ' Genius... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1822 - 280 sivua
...identified with its growth. *' For the slender beech and the sapling oak, That grow by the shadowy rill, Ton may cut down both at a single stroke, You may cut...either oak or beech To be aught but a greenwood tree." \ c 6 CHAP. III. Inflamed wrath in glowing breast. BUTLER. T HE knight and the friar, arriving at Arlingford... | |
| Sir Henry Rowley Bishop - 1822 - 20 sivua
...Though he be now, &c. All. Little he reck'd, &c. SONG—Mr Pearman. From the Noyel.' The slender beech and the sapling oak, That grow by the shadowy rill, You may cut down both with a single stroke, You may cut down which you will. That as long as they grow, But this you must... | |
| 1891 - 874 sivua
...I hear these sighs I always think of a certain delightful verse of Peacock's: — But this you may know, that as long as they grow, Whatever change may...either oak or beech To be aught but a greenwood tree. And English is one with its own greenwood trees in this respect. It will grow as it likes or not at... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1856 - 514 sivua
...canopy. They are twin plants of the forest, and are identified with its growth. For the slender beech and the sapling oak, That grow by the shadowy rill,...know, that as long as they grow, Whatever change may he, You never can teach either oak or beech To be aught but a greenwood tree." CHAPTER III. Inflamed... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1871 - 378 sivua
...mores natura recurrit Damnatos, fixa et mutari nescia. It has been said, or sung, of the slender beech and the sapling oak, that grow by the shadowy rill, you may cut down both at a single stroke, or cut down which you will : " But this you must know, that as long as they grow, Whatever change may... | |
| 1873 - 932 sivua
...notion of making us other than we are. They run — ' Fur the slender beech and the sapling oak 'lhat grow by the shadowy rill, You may cut down both at...either oak or beech To be aught but a greenwood tree.' " To find in the inhabitant of some very humble homes the follower of some very poorly paid employment,... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 488 sivua
...canopy. They are twin plants of theforest and are identified with its growth. " For the tender beech and the sapling oak, That grow by the shadowy rill,...either oak or beech To be aught but a greenwood tree." CHAPTEE III. Inflamed wrath in glowing breast.— BUTLER. THE knight and the friar arrived at Arlingford... | |
| Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle (bart.) - 1877 - 316 sivua
...restraint, rightly perhaps, for he was no hot-house plant, and as the ballad sings :— For the tender beech and the sapling oak, That grow by the shadowy rill,...either oak or beech, To be aught but a greenwood tree. Here, however, he found himself for the first time in his life entangled in formalities, and subject... | |
| sir Francis Hastings C. Doyle (2nd bart.) - 1877 - 316 sivua
...restraint, rightly perhaps, for he was no hot-house plant, and as the ballad sings :— For the tender beech and the sapling oak, That grow by the shadowy rill,...either oak or beech, To be aught but a greenwood tree. Here, however, he found himself for the first time in his life entangled in formalities, and subject... | |
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