| P R Jackson - 1882 - 184 pągines
...works : Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Bleak House, &c. OH a dainty * plant is the Ivy * green, That creepeth o'er ruins old ! On right choice food are his meals, I ween,* In his cell so lone and cold. The walls must be crumbled,... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1883 - 504 pągines
...The modern associations connected with it are very happily set forth in the following song : 1. Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er...dust that years have made Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green. 2. Fast he stealeth on, though he... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1883 - 552 pągines
...sundry promptings from his wife, the lines in question " I call them," said he, " THE IVY GREEN. " Он, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o'er...his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. The wall must be crumbled, the stones decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim : And the mouldering dust that... | |
| Harriet B. Swineford - 1883 - 302 pągines
...that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to heaven. The Old Ouriosity Shop. Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er...are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no light is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green. Pickwick. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pągines
...xxxiv. My life is one demd horrid grind. Ch. ixiv. In a Pickwickian sense. Picticict Papers. Ch. i. O, a dainty plant is the Ivy green. That creepeth o'er...are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Ch. \\. He 's tough, ma'am, tough... | |
| Anna Randall Diehl - 1883 - 422 pągines
...Across the Spanish main I Thomas Bailey Aldrieh. THE IVY-GREEN. OH ! a dainty plant is the ivy-green, That creepeth o'er ruins old; Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lonely and cold. The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To please his dainty whim; And the moldering... | |
| Moffatt and Paige - 1883 - 530 pągines
..."And our good father Tiber Bare bravely up his chin." Dickens speaks of the ivy as a male, — " Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old ! Of right choice food arc his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold." Masculine, Feminine. Masculine. Feminine. boar... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1883 - 904 pągines
...sundry promptings from bis wife, the lines in question. " I call them," said he, "THE IVY GREEN. Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old ! Or right choice food are bi! meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. The wall must be crumbled,... | |
| 1887 - 300 pągines
...thou our coin debase. Funny Folks. May 10, 1884. THE IVY GREEN. OH ! a dainty plant is the Ivy greeD, That creepeth o'er ruins old ! Of right choice food...dust that years have made, Is a merry meal for him. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Fast he stealeth on, though he wears... | |
| William Davenport Adams - 1885 - 190 pągines
...were going round the board, Ned, in his most sentimental vein, sang the [above]."] THE IVY GREEN: H, a dainty plant is the Ivy Green, That creepeth o'er...his meals I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim : And the mouldering dust that... | |
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