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" Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when Nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in happiest hours. "
The Beauties of the Bosphorus - Page 37
by Miss Pardoe (Julia) - 1838 - 164 pages
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The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 14

1854 - 1112 pages
...made up, not so much of great deeds of philanthropy, as by the perennial acts of social life. " It is a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain' d by fever' d lips, May send a shock of pleasure to the soul, More exquisite than when nectarious...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...KIXDXESSES. The blessings which the weak and poor can scatter Have their own season. 'Tis a little tiling To give a cup of water; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarian...
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Ion; a tragedy [by sir T.N. Talfourd. In verse].

sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1835 - 232 pages
...sharp extremities of fortune, The blessings which the weak and poor can scatter Have their own season. 'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its...than when nectarean juice Renews the life of joy in festal hours. It is a little thing to speak a phrase Of common comfort which by daily use Has almost...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 63

English literature - 1836 - 604 pages
...sharp extremities of fortune, The blessings which the weak and poor can scatter Have their own season. 'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment drain'd by fevcr'd lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice Kenews...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1836 - 640 pages
...extremities of fortune. The blessings which the weak and poor can scatter, Have th-iir own season. *Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught ( Of cool rcfrcblmicnt, drain'd by fever'd lips, ,« May give a shock of pleasure to the frame. More exquisite...
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The Fruit of the Spirit

George Washington Bethune - Christian life - 1839 - 228 pages
...extremities of fortune, The blessings which the weak and poor can scatter, Have their own season — 'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water, yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean...
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Tragedies, Issue 73

Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1840 - 366 pages
...sharp extremities of fortune, The blessings which the weak and poor can scatter Have their own season. 'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever' d lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite than when nectarean juice JKenews...
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The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend, Volume 1

Child rearing - 1841 - 300 pages
...CHARITY. BY THOMAS M. TALFOCRD. The blessings which the weak and poor can scatter, Have their own season. 'Tis a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame More exquisite, than when nectarian...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 17

Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...but be very sweet to the soul of every one who reads them, has the poet sung, " "Tis a little thiog To give a cup of water ; yet its draught Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame, More exquisite than when nectarine...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 11

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1858 - 666 pages
...thread gives brilliance to a tissue. The drooping branch springs up again in pillared stems. " ' Tia a little thing To give a cup of water ; yet its draught, Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips, May give a shock of pleasure to the frame, More exquisite than when nectarean...
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