 A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows , simple wiles , Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.  The New-York Review - Page 581839Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time's brightest, liveliest dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to...Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin-liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A Creature not... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to...! Her household motions light and free, And steps ofy virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature... | |
 | Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pages
...mother's spirit would not revisit our desolate dwelling. I cannot return to it alone." CHAPTER VII. I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too! ***** A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple... | |
 | 1880 - 492 pages
...destiny to which your Art has called you !" " Perhaps he will in time," said Christina. CHAPTER V. " A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay." home, he had heard the young people spoken of with much affection and compassion ; and he felt at once... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1848 - 492 pages
...its first impulses." To no one better could Wordsworth's fine lines be applied than to her : — " I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too...countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A, perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command, And yet a spirit too, and... | |
 | Theology - 1848 - 500 pages
...Hebrew Ideas of God. 27 To no one better could Wordsworth's fine lines be applied than to her : — " I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too...countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command, And yet a spirit too, and... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - English fiction - 1848 - 478 pages
...himself, and then stopping before Lady Cecilia, repeated to her, in a very low voice, the following: — " I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman...countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple... | |
 | Lucy Hooper - 1848 - 414 pages
...practical example of her life, how does it realize to us the exquisite picture of Wordsworth ; We see her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and fre«, And step of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet;... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - Country life - 1849 - 256 pages
...is able to cheer and bless us in all weathers of life. He has written nothing tenderer or truer — I saw her, upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman...countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet. A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 382 pages
...twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn Prom May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, . To haunt,....Her household motions light and free And steps of virgin-liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not... | |
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