 | Education - 1850 - 780 pages
...undergoing transformations ! Not an hour passes that does not witness the birth of some ethereal being. "A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay." And yet how few — how passing few there are who receive this heaven-sent beauty ! Would not the teacher... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 pages
...view A spirit, yet a woman too. With household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty, A countenance in which did meet, Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 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 startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too! Her household motions light and free, And sleps... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...twilight, 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 startle, and waylay. 1 saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too! Her household motions light and free, And steps... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 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 startle, and way-lay. " I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light aud free, And... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pages
...thee friendship had early paired ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. ' I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And... | |
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 228 pages
...Like twilight 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 startle, and waylay. — WORDSWORTH. A most pernicious woman. — SHAKSPEAHE. I HAVE not yet spoken of my cousin Viola ;... | |
 | George Searle Phillips - 1852 - 314 pages
...Like twilight too her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May tiuie and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps... | |
 | Isabel Goldsmid - 1852 - 230 pages
...Like twilight 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 startle, and waylay.—WoEDSWORTH. A most pernicious woman.—SHAKSPEAHE. I HATE not yet spoken of my cousin Viola;... | |
 | Joanna Baillie - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1853 - 892 pages
...view, A spirit, yet a woman too I 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 too bright and good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love,... | |
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SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT." She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about... 
