 What though the sun, with ardent frown, Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown, The sportive toil, which, short and light, Had dyed her glowing hue so bright, Served too in hastier swell to show Short glimpses of a breast of snow ; What though no rule...  Temple Bar - Page 32edited by - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1812 - 850 pages
...Short glimpses of a breast of snow : What thonsjh no rule of courtly grace To measur'd mood had train'd her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath -flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell rai.Vd its head, Elastic from her airy tread... | |
 | 1811 - 544 pages
...show Short glimpses of a breast of suow : Whet though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood huil trained her pace, A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew; E en the slight hare-bell raised his head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pages
...stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. XVTIT. And ne'er did Grecian chizzel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face ! What though...Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pages
...brown,— The sportive toil, which, short and light, Had dyed her glowing hue so bright, Served tod in hastier swell to show Short glimpses of a breast...Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1810 - 462 pages
...hue so bright, Served too, in hastier swell, to show Short glimpses of a breast of snow; Voi, IV. 2 s What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood...Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew; E'en the slight hare-bell raised it's head, Elastick from her airy tread: What though upon her speech there... | |
 | 1810 - 590 pages
...bright, Served too in hastier swell to show Short glimpses of a breast of mow j . •.. What.tho.ugh no rule of courtly grace ' To measured mood had trained...her pace — A foot more light, a step more true, fcJe'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew, E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...Served too in hastier swell-to show Short glimpses of a breast of snow : What though no rule of eonrtfy grace To measured mood had trained her pace, — A foot more light, a step more trne, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic... | |
 | 1811 - 872 pages
...stand, The guardian Maiad of the strand." " What though no rule ot courtly grace To measured mood bad trained her pace,— A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er fron» the heath-dower daahed the dew , E'en the slight harebell raised its bead. Elastic from her... | |
 | 1812 - 822 pages
...glimpses of a breast of snow : What though no rule of courtly grace To measur'd mood lucí train'cl her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath -flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell nis'd its head, Elastic from her airy tread... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 410 pages
...swell to show Short glimpses of a hreast of snow ; What thongh no rnle of conrtly grace To measnred mood had trained her pace,— A foot more light, a step more trne, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the slight hare-hell raised its head, Elastic... | |
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