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 | Lizzie Joyce Tomlinson - 1877 - 136 strani
...importance that small amount gained in their estimation when they knew they had lost it. For " Oh! the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away." It was, indeed, difficult to keep the invalid from thinking of the present—the... | |
 | William Hurrell Mallock - 1878 - 392 strani
...refinement, and selfpossession, into the face. As Browning says of a very different subject— Oh, the little more, and how much it is, And the little less, and what worlds away. And this is something quite independent of any special ability or special quality... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1879 - 384 strani
...never be said, but which, spoken half an hour ago, would have secured the happiness of two lives. Oh the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! Ah! how bitter it was—how bitter it was to be baffled, for want of the opportunity... | |
 | Emma Marshall - 1879 - 366 strani
...yet to Bridget there was that which is so forcibly expressed by the poet in these terse lines : ' Oh, the little more, and how much it is ; And the little less, and what worlds away !' Bernard was worlds away from her now ; and not till he had absolutely left her... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1879 - 324 strani
...sounds we heard, The lights and the shades made up a spell Till the trouble grew and stirred. XXXIX. Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! How a sound shall quicken content to bliss, Or a breath suspend the blood's best... | |
 | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - 1879 - 368 strani
...the Lady of Shalott was happy. And because, to the patient heart that is a seeker after happiness " the little more, and how much it is! " (and the little less, what worlds away!) the Lady of Shalott was proud as well as happy. The looking-glass measured in inches... | |
 | Emma Marshall - 1880 - 358 strani
...yet to Bridget there was that which is so forcibly expressed by the poet in these terse lines : ' Oh, the little more, and how much it is ; -And the little less, and what worlds away !' Bernard was worlds away from her now ; and not till he had absolutely left her... | |
 | Emily Frances Adeline Sergeant - 1882 - 306 strani
...said Mr. Dumaresq, " was justice in the days of Ismail Pacha." 266 BEYOND RECALL. CHAPTER XII. Oh, the little more, and how much it is, And the little less, and how far away! How a sound can quicken content to bliss, And a word suspend the blood's best play!—- And life be... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1882 - 330 strani
...we heard, The lights and the shades made up a spell Till the trouble grew and stirred. XXXIX. / Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! / And the little less, and what worlds away ! How a sound shall quicken content to bliss, Or a breath suspend the blood's best... | |
 | 1882 - 892 strani
...of the experts seems to have noticed this, and yet, if one may quote poetry in a legal paper, " Oh, the little more, and how much it is, And the little less and what worlds away." "Second" (from Gayler), "the letter '/' in 'fixed' and 'friend ' I found no such... | |
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