 | 1849 - 600 pages
...three weeks, Was getting by heart." Very spirited is the next song, " The Lost Leader," commencing, " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat :" — And containing these fine lines, (despite their falsity, for if... | |
 | 1849 - 1052 pages
...three weeks, Was getting by heart." Very spirited is the next song, "The Lost Leader," commencing,— " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in hit coat:"— And containing these fine lines, (despite their falsity, for if there... | |
 | 1850 - 824 pages
...verses by that most eccentric of poets, Robert Browning. They have more bad feeling than poetry— "Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to slick in his coal — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost as tho others she... | |
 | 1883 - 676 pages
...not quote v. ¡Ui military precision. His lordship, like the rest ol us, must verify. А. Б. F, " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in Lis coat," will be found in a poem of Robert Browning's callee Tht Loit Leader,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...righteous and wise — If 'tis proper, Scirocco should vanish In black from the skies ! THE LOST LEADER. i. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others... | |
 | 1851 - 534 pages
...expression; we do not meet with many verses in Mr, Browu ing's volumes that read off so flowingly :— •THE LOST LEADER. ' Just for a handful of silver he left us, Lost all the others she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, Just for... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 794 pages
...beyond it the Chaplaincy to the Queen ! How much more tragical, sometimes, Life is than Death ! Another Lost Leader : " Just for a handful of silver he left us — Just for a riband to stick in his coat ; Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she... | |
 | Emile Daurand Forgues - 1860 - 400 pages
...facultés, et cette science spéciale, qui régle la distribution d'un ouvrage, ménage habilement 1 Just for a handful of silver he left us, , Just for a riband to stick in his coat, — etc. l'action, taille les scènes à la mesure qu'elles doivent avoir,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1860 - 296 pages
...you ever see a little poem of Browning's called " The Lost Leader ? " MR. MIDHURST. No. MILVERTON. " Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat." And then afterwards it describes the party he had deserted. " We that... | |
 | 1863 - 660 pages
...are by Robert Browning, author of Paracelsus, &c. &c., and are as follows : " The Lost Lender. " Jnst for a handful of silver he left us; Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat ; Got the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she let us devote. " They who had... | |
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LEADER. JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat — Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote ; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who... 
