Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey ; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended. Each succeeding year stole something away from her beauty, Leaving behind it, broader and deeper, the gloom and the shadow. Then there... Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie - Page 88by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1895 - 98 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1847 - 1230 pages
...ever-disappointing, task. " Fair was she and young when in hope began the long journey; Faded was slio and old when in disappointment it ended. Each succeeding...and the shadow. Then there appeared and spread faint strcuks of gray o'er her forehead, Dawn of another lire, that broke o'er her earthly horizon, *1s in... | |
| 1848 - 572 pages
...and in hamlets, and all in vain : — Fair was she and yonng, when in hope began the long journey ; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended....succeeding year stole something away from her beauty, As in the eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning. As we have already intimated, this melancholy... | |
| 1848 - 636 pages
...towns and in hamlets, and all in vain : Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey ; | Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended....eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning. As we have already intimated, this melancholy progression is, perhaps, likely to be felt as opprescive... | |
| 1848 - 476 pages
...she came, and passed away unremembered. Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey ; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended....eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning." — pp. 107—111. At length Evangeline found her way to the city of the apostolic Penn. There, as... | |
| 1848 - 514 pages
...she came, and passed away unremembered. Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey ; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended....her earthly horizon, As in the eastern sky the first feint streaks of the morning." — pp. 107—111. At length Evangeline found her way to the city of... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1848 - 538 pages
...she came, and passed away unremembered. Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey ; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended....broke o'er her earthly horizon, As in the eastern skv the first faint streaks of the morning." — pp. 144, 145. At last, Evangeline finds a home among... | |
| 1848 - 602 pages
...she came, and paused away unremembered. Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey ; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended....gloom and the shadow. Then there appeared and spread taint streaks of gray o'er her forehead, Dawn of another life, that broke o'er her earthly horizon,... | |
| 1848 - 722 pages
...example, his heroine grows old, he says : — " Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray on her forehead, Dawn of another life, that broke o'er...eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning." The comparison of the turning gray of the hair to the dawn of the morning, has a pleasing fancifulness,... | |
| 1848 - 1390 pages
...example, his heroine grows old, he says : — " Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray on her forehead, Dawn of another life, that broke o'er...eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning." The comparison of the turning gray of the hair to the dawn of the morning, has a pleasing fancifulncss,... | |
| 1848 - 832 pages
...hopeless, ever-disappointing, task. " Fair was she nnd young when in hope began the long journey ; Faded was she and old when in disappointment it ended. Each succeeding year stolo something away from her beauty. Leaving behind it broader and deeper the gloom and the shadow.... | |
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