 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 play, And life be a proof of this ! XL.  The Quarterly Review - Page 931865Full view - About this book
 | 1884 - 1126 lehte
...mariner, whether the radiant be in a lighthouse or in a ship-light. It is truly in light as in love— i " Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! " An exhibition of the new ship-lights with the incandescent lamp was held in London on two evenings... | |
 | Royal Entomological Society of London - 1905 - 1072 lehte
...such means of defence in insects, and they are numberless, we may apply the words of Browning : — " Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! " It is all the difference in fact between success and failure, between life and death. Comparatively... | |
 | 1926 - 750 lehte
...who has tried them knows only too well. Indeed, in literature, they are the supreme examples of — Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away! In the George Wyndham tribute Curzon may seem to give his subject too high a place; yet, measured by... | |
 | 1856 - 504 lehte
...grew and stirred. Oh, the 1ml.' more, and how much it is I And the little less, and what worlds away I How a sound shall quicken content to bliss, Or a breath suspend the blood's best play, Ami life be n proof of this I A moment after, and hands unseen Were hanging the night around us fast... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1856 - 386 lehte
...the sounds we heard, The lights and the shades made up a spell Till the trouble grew and stirred. 39. Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! And the...the blood's best play, And life be a proof of this ! 40. Had she willed it, still had stood the screen So slight, so sure, 'twixt my love and her. I could... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1894 - 608 lehte
...and show ? To-day I grope in darkness here ; To-morrow I shall know ! CHRISTIAN BUUKB. Jin (tull. " Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! And the little less, and what worlds away ! . . . . And life be a proof of this ! " Robert THE room was very still. Nan roused herself from a... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1863 - 360 lehte
...the sounds we heard, The lights and the shades made up a spell Till the trouble grew and stirred. 39. Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! And the...away ! How a sound shall quicken content to bliss, 40. Had she willed it, still had stood the screen So slight, so sure, 'twixt my love and her. I could... | |
 | Anne Judith Penny - 1865 - 192 lehte
...the smile with which he said it, was a shade less agreeable than his smiles usually were. CHAPTER V. Oh ! the little more, and how much it is ! And the...the blood's best play, And life be a proof of this ! K. BROWNINQ. For nought 's so sad, the whole world o'er, As much love which has once been more. COVENTET... | |
 | Annie Keary - 1866 - 326 lehte
...interested her ; and her unoccupied imagination wove never-ending webs of fancy round him. CHAPTER VI. 0 the little more, and how much it is ! And the little...the blood's best play, And life be a proof of this. Browning. THE interest excited by Colonel Edgecombe's return was great and lasting enough to satisfy... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1871 - 684 lehte
...JUST MISSED. BY FLORENCE WILFORD, AUTHOR OP "A MAIDEN OP OUR OWN DAT," "NIGEL BARTRAM'S IDEAL," ETC. " Oh, the little more, and how much it is ! And the...the blood's best play, And life be a proof of this !" — BROWNING. CHAPTER I. IT was in a subterranean passage leading from one platform of a large railway... | |
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