Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, And her eyes on all my motions with a mute observance hung. And I said, " My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to me, Trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee. The Quarterly Review - Page 405edited by - 1842Full view - About this book
| Mrs. Woodward - 1878 - 490 pages
...left her. CHAPTEE XII. OVERWORK. " We inuat learn In silence and in patience to endure." — HEMANS. " Her cheek was pale, and thinner than should be for one so young." — TENNYSON. " It is a pang, keen only to the best, to be injured well-deserving ; And slumbering... | |
| A L O. Sanders - 1878 - 268 pages
...desperation took down •" Locksley Hall," and with a pathos born of the wildest experience read— " Trust me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee." There was no doubt but that— •" On her pallid cheek and forehead came a colour and a light." But... | |
| Thomas Edie Hill - 1879 - 398 pages
...those ; Favors to none, | to all she smiles extends, Oft she rejects, | but never once offends. •' Then her cheek | was pale, and thinner | | than should...all my motions, | | with a mute observance hung." The final pause occurs at the end of each line whether the sense requires it or not, though 306 VARIETIES... | |
| 1879 - 524 pages
...changes on the burnish'd dove ; ln the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one as young, And her eyes on all my motions with a mute observance hung. And l said, " My cousin Amy,... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...changes on the burnished dove ; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. ames Grant шу motions with a mute observance hung. And I said, " My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to... | |
| William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...changes on the burnished dove ~ In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be for one so young, 2 521 And I said, " My cousin Amy, speak, and speak the truth to me, Trust me, cousin, all the current... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...changes on the burnish'd dove ; In the ¡Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. h weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i' color and a light, As I have seen the rosy red flushing in the northern night. And she turn'd — her... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1881 - 798 pages
...changes on the banish'd dove ; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts oflore : Then her cheek was pale and thinner than should be...me, cousin, all the current of my being sets to thee '." TENNYSON. ANAPKSTIU MEASURES. ANAPESTIC MONOMKTK R. Formula xx a. § 649. Each of the following... | |
| William Tait Ross - 1881 - 274 pages
...society meetings, and Barbara , with the gentle face, blue eyes, and golden tresses, was there : — "Then her cheek was pale, and thinner than Should...eyes on all my motions with A mute observance hung. " That essay did it ! And now, after the lapse of many changing years, and while I indite these words,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1899 - 996 pages
...cheek was pale and thinm-i than should be for one sc young, And her eyes on all my motions •will a mute observance hung. And I said, ' My cousin Amy,...the truth to' me. Trust me, cousin, all the current ol my being sets to thee.' On her pallid cheek and forehead came a color and a light, As I have seen... | |
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