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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SONG OF THE GREENAWAY CHILD As I went a-walking on Lavender Hill, O, I met a Darling in frock and frill; And she looked at me shyly, with eyes of blue, Are you going a-walking? Then take me too So we strolled to the field where the cowslips grow, And we played?and we played, for an hour or so; Then we climbed to the top of the old park wall, And the Darling she threaded a cowslip ball. Then we played again, till I said?My Dear, This pain in my side, it has grown severe; I ought to have mentioned I'm past three-score, And I fear that I scarcely can play any more 1 But the Darling she answered, ?O no O no You must play?you must play.?-I sha'n't let you ?And I woke with a start and a sigh of despair, And I found myself safe in my Grandfather's-chair TWO MODERN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS THE BROWN BOOK-PLATE. ( From the original design.) TWO MODERN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS II. Mr. Hugh Thomson In virtue of certain gentle and caressing qualities of style, Douglas Jerrold conferred on one of his contributors?Miss Eliza Meteyard?the pseudonym of Silverpen. It is in the silver-pensive key that one would wish to write of Mr. Hugh Thomson. There is nothing in his work of elemental strife, ?of social problem, ?of passion torn to tatters. He leads you by no terribile via, ?over no burning Marie. You cannot conceive him as the illustrator of Paradise Lost, of Dante's Inferno?even of Dore's Wandering Jew. But when, after turning over some dozens of his designs, you take stock of your impressions, you discover that your memory is packed with pleasant fancies. You have been among blown fields and flowerful closes; you have passed quaint roadside-inns and picturesque cottages; you are familiar with the cheery, ever-changing idyll of the highwayand the b
| ISBN-13 | 9780217463706 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217463703 |
| Weight | 0.27 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.18 In |
| List Price | $13.59 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 74 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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