 A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance!  A lost name - Page 227by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1816 - 678 pages
...couch'd her head upon her breast, And look'd askance at Christabel Jiesu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of... | |
 | 1816 - 676 pages
...highly poetical,, and is expressed by the author with considerable felicity, though too minutely : " A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of... | |
 | 1816 - 658 pages
...couch'd her head upon her breast. And look'd askance at Christabel—— Jesu, Maria, shield her well! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, « And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of... | |
 | John Bickerton - 1816 - 70 pages
...And couch'd her head upon her breast, And look'd askance at Christabel Jesu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, •• • And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, . And with somewhat of malice, and more... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 242 pages
...her arms across her chest, And look'd askance at Christabel — — Jesu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 426 pages
...And couched her head upon her breast, And looked askance at Christabel Jesu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of... | |
 | 1829 - 342 pages
...couched her head upon her breast, And looked askance at Christabel — Jesu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head ; Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...And couch'd her head upon her breast, And look'd askance at Christabel Jciu, Maria, shield her well ! dewy eyes are closed, And on their lids, whose teiture 6ne they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice and moro of... | |
 | James Gillman - 1838 - 398 pages
...change which, being read in a party at Lord Byron's, is said to have caused Shelley to faint : — A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes, they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...Geraldine,—looks which the innocent Christabel, in her fascination, feels compelled to " imitate." A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrank in her head, Each shrank up to a serpent's eye ; And with somewhat of malice and more of... | |
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