| Thomas Love Peacock - 1822 - 280 páginas
...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 páginas
...single stroke, You may cut down which you will. That as long as they grow, But this you must know, Whatever change may be, You never can teach Either oak or beech, To be aught but a greenwood tree. FINALE TO ACT I. GLEE and CHORUS—Messrs. Pearman, Pyne, Isaacs, fyc. Hart and hind are in their lair,... | |
| 1891 - 874 páginas
...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... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1871 - 378 páginas
...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,...either oak or beech To be aught but a greenwood tree." it in the nature of the beast. What the planters of Carolina and Louisiana say, or used to say, of... | |
| 1873 - 932 páginas
...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 - 498 páginas
...speed, and was in much awe of her for many months. I thought he had forgotten it : but let that pass. In truth, she would have had little of her lover's...either oak or beech To be aught but a greenwood tree." CHAPTER III. Inflamed wrath in glowing breast. — BUTLER. THE knight and the friar arrived at Arliugford... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 488 páginas
...lark, nor reverence vaulted aisle but that of the greenwood canopy. They are twin plants of theforest and are identified with its growth. " For the tender...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... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 488 páginas
...canopy. They are twin plants of tha forest and are identified with its growth. " For the tender beecli and the sapling oak, That grow by the shadowy rill,...either oak or beech To be aught but a greenwood tree." CHAPTER III. Inflamed wrath in glowing breast.— BUTLER. THE knight and the friar arrived at Arlingford... | |
| sir Francis Hastings C. Doyle (2nd bart.) - 1877 - 316 páginas
...everything like 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...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... | |
| J. G. HOLLAND - 1881 - 990 páginas
...most formidable assailants of that review had expressed the truth of the matter : "But this you may know, that, as long as they grow, Whatever change...either oak or beech To be aught but a greenwood tree." Jeffrey's idea of the complete vegetable was a tree duly subjected to the topiary art, and neither... | |
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