 What though the sun, with ardent frown, Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown, The sportive toil, which, short and light, Had dyed her glowing hue so bright, Served too in hastier swell to show Short glimpses of a breast of snow ; What though no rule...  Temple Bar - Page 32edited by - 1871Full view - About this book
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...Short glimpses of a breast of snow: What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had train'd her pace,— A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread: What though... | |
 | Dorothea Primrose Campbell - 1821 - 552 pages
...take place there. CHAPCHAPTER IX. What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had train'd her pace, A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dasb'd the dew. What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the Thulian tongue, Those silver... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...Short glimpses of a breast of snow : What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had train'd her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true. Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head. Elastic from her airy tread : What though... | |
 | 1833 - 570 pages
...spaniel, who, as if inspired with her gaiety, went bounding after her splphlike figure, than whose " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew." The children of the tenantry used to follow her at a respectful distance, to see her climb the mountains... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1825 - 1096 pages
...to stand The guardian Naiad of the strand. Am! ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face ! What though...light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - 1825 - 516 pages
...harebell properly belongs to the Little Campanula. Sir Walter Scott speaks of it by that title : " What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood...Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew : E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread." LADY OF THE LAKH. CANDY-TUFT. JBERIS.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. XVIII. And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face ! What though...Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung... | |
 | James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 pages
...the Lake, would be quite absurd were the flower there mentioned, intended to be the English harebell. A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread. When applied... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 pages
...glimpses of а breasi of snow : What though no rule of coirrtly grace To measured mood had train d her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heatli-tlowcr dash'd the dew; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Klastic from her airy trend... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pages
...And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face I What though the sun with ardent frown, Had slightly...Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew: E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hune... | |
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