| 1836 - 436 pages
...form of oriental benediction, " Slay you die among your kindred." — Greenwood. SHE WAS A PHANTOM. She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes art* stars of Twilight fair ; I.iko Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; Jiut all things else... | |
| 1837 - 418 pages
...who might well have been mistaken for the Naiad of the place, so lonely and so lovely did she seem. " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilights, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about... | |
| 1837 - 860 pages
...bird ! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place, That is fit home for thee. She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sigl.t, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - 230 pages
...Caesarini soon forgot its existence. CHAPTER V. " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A. lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament." WORDSWORTH. MALTRAVERS did not see Lady Florence again for some -weeks ; meanwhile Lumley Ferrers made... | |
| Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1838 - 1064 pages
...what at first sight appeared a page — at second sight, a woman, — and at third, an angel ! — A lovely apparition sent To be a moment's ornament...shape, an image gay To haunt, to startle and waylay ! Long light tresses escaped from a black velvet cap, lay upon the green vest and skirting, in which... | |
| James Gregor Grant - 1838 - 290 pages
...me see The brightest star of ages yet to be, And I will mate and match him blissfully." Wordsworth, She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A dancing Shape, an Image gay — To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. I saw her, upon nearer view, A Spirit,... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1838 - 226 pages
...Caesarini soon forgot its existence. CHAPTER V. " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament." WORDSWORTH. MALTRAVEBS did not see Lady Florence again for some weeks ; meanwhile Lumley Ferrers made... | |
| 1839 - 538 pages
...make up the perfection of female loveliness. Such is the idea of this picture: NO. vII. vOL. Iv. 8 " She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about... | |
| Isabel Goldsmid - 1839 - 336 pages
...the " ars medendi ;" but few are aware how oft it has swollen the bills of mortality. CHAPTER III, She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight too her dusky hair; But all things else about... | |
| Margaret Coxe - 1839 - 364 pages
...language, than is to be found in those exquisite stanzas of this poet, commencing with the lines, " She was a Phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight." The poem entitled Tintern Abbey is one of the most precious morceaux; it is characterised by thought... | |
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