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| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath,... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...virgin-liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not top bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles And now I see with eye serene The very pnlae of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath ;... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 pages
...A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For transient sorrows, simple wiles. Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I teewith eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A... | |
| 1829 - 348 pages
...anchored in the still depths of female tenderness. Yet his heroines, though Creatures not too bright or good For human nature's daily food,— For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles, — are by no means homely and uninteresting ; however lowly their lot, there is about them all ' a... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1875 - 1116 pages
...the noble Marquess received at the end of last Session by exaggerated credit in the Eecess. Now — For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles," are charming ingredients in those who have to deal with young children ; but I am not quite sure that... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - 360 pages
...would write Wordsworth's lines— ' A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.' " Under the fair Florentine I would inscribe Byron's Hues; hers being ' The high Dama's brow, more... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - 354 pages
...would write Wordsworth's lines — ' A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.' " Under the fair Florentine I would inscribe Byron's lines ; hers being ' The high DamaVbrow, more... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1832 - 260 pages
...would write Wordsworth's lines — 4 A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.' " Under the fair Florentine I would inscribe Byron's lines ; hers being ' The high Dama's brow, more... | |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1832 - 262 pages
...would write Wordsworth's lines — ' A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.' " Under the fair Florentine I would inscribe Byron's lines ; hers being ' The high Dama's brow, more... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 pages
...sight are spiritualized — and yet, as Wordsworth divinely saith, are they " Creatures not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, I'raise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles !" We are in love — as an old man ought to be —... | |
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