 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1831 - 388 pages
...honours, Cupid chuses ; He cares as little for the Stocks, As Baron llothschild for the Muses. VIII. She sketched ; — the vale, the wood, the beach Grew...could stand For hours and hours to blow the bellows. IX. She kept an Album too at home, Well filled with all an Album's glories ; Paintings of butterflies,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...each Young blossom on her boudoir fading ; She warbled Handel : it was grand, She made the Catalani jealous ; She touched the organ : I could stand For hours and hours and blow the bellows. She kept an album, too, at home, Well filled with all an album's glories ; Paintings... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...her boudoir fading: She warbled Handel ; it was grand — She made the Catalani jealous ; She touch'd the organ, I could stand For hours and hours to blow...the bellows. She kept an album, too, at home, Well fill'd with all an album's glories: Paintings of butterflies and Rome, Patterns for trimming, Persian... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 924 pages
...each Young blossom in her boudoir fading : She warbled Handel ; it was grand ; She made the Catalani jealous : She touched the organ ; I could stand For hours and Hours to Wow the bellows.' In the same easy antithetic strain goes on the poet to narrate the history of bis... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 296 pages
...could stand For hours and hours and blow the bellows. She kept an album, too, at home, Well fill'd with all an album's glories ; Paintings of butterflies and Rome, Patterns for trimming, Persian stories ; Soft songs to Julia's cockatoo, Fierce odes to famine and to slaughter... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...could stand For hours and hours and blow the bellows. She kept an album, too, at home, Well lill'J with all an album's glories ; Paintings of butterflies and Rome, Patterns for trimming, Persian stories ; Soft songs to Julia's cockatoo, Fierce odes to famine and to slaughter... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...could stand For hours and hours and blow the bellows. She kept an album, too, at home, Well fill'd with all an album's glories ; Paintings of butterflies and Rome, Patterns for trimming, Persian stories ; Soft songs to Julia's cockatoo. Fierce odes to famine and to slaughter... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - Quotations - 1848 - 320 pages
...she hates, aye more than all, The faults she cannot find. EBE.VEZER ELLIOTT. 36. She keeps an Album Well filled with all an album's glories, Paintings...Rome, Patterns for trimmings, Persian stories ; Soft sonnets to her cockatoo, Fierce odes to famine and to slaughter, And autographs of Prince Laboo ! And... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading; She warbled Handel: it was grand, She made the Catalan! jealous; She touched the organ: I could stand For hours and hours and blow the bellows. She kept an Vbum, too, at home, Well filled with all an album's glories; Paintings... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...each Young blossom in her boudoir fading ; She warbled Handel : it was grand, She made the Catalani jealous ; She touched the organ : I could stand For hours and hours and blow the bellows. She kept an album, too, at home, Well filled with all an album's glories ; Paintings... | |
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She sketched ; the vale, the wood, the beach, Grew lovelier from her pencil's shading. She botanized ; I envied each Young blossom in her boudoir fading : She warbled Handel ; it was grand ; She made the Catalini jealous : She touched the organ ; I could... 
