A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. Littell's Living Age - Page 2761848Full view - About this book
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; r my part, 1 am never so well pleased as when a judicious...what is the purpose of showing a work to a friend i And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A being breathing thoughtful breath,... | |
| Edward Jesse - 1844 - 456 pages
...nurse. Phoebe might have .her faults, but we must take her as she was — A creature not too bright and good, For human nature's daily food, For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. Unfortunately for her future happiness, she had attracted the notice of the lady of the manor, and... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 pages
...sweetest picture of woman that ever dawned on poet's brain. Stella was — " A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food ; For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles !" * • * * • " A being breathing thoughtful breath ; A traveller betwixt life and death ; A perfect... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1844 - 384 pages
...in poetry, as in society; and take the place assigned to us as women— As creatures not too bright or good, For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, bkme, love, kisses, tears and smiles !* We are represented as ruling by our feminine attractions, moral... | |
| 1841 - 178 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,... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 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,... | |
| 1875 - 828 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." AGAIN it was June — bright, buoyant, joyous June The day by me mos' eagerly looked forward to was... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...'-or me nearc — som1 thing that the heart or mind dwells upon ; an authentic memorial of the past, 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,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 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,... | |
| Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1845 - 424 pages
...OF CONNAUGHT. BY BDWARD Q.UILMNAN. CHAPTER I. A creature not too bright or good For human nature'! daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. Wordsworth. There ia but one... | |
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