Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses! Littell's Living Age - Page 3801849Full view - About this book
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1893 - 242 pages
...locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the...her tresses ! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kino that feed in the meadows. When. in the harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noontide Flagons... | |
| Robert Frederick Brewer - 1893 - 404 pages
...schemes of these various metres, with examples of each. i.— HEXAMETERS. Fair was she to be \ hold, that | maiden of seventeen | summers ; Black were...wayside — Black, yet how | softly they | gleamed be | neath the brown | | shade of her | tresses ! Sweet was her | breath as the | breath of | kine... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1893 - 220 pages
...each other, nor did they meet again all the rest of that forenoon. CHAPTER XV. A FINCH TRANSFORMED. Black were her eyes, as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside. — LONGFELLOW, Evangelinc. $ES, it was Kate Bulfinch ! On the Sunday, the very next day, as Chris... | |
| Richard Gilmour - 1894 - 418 pages
...that is covered with White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers....breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows. 6. Fairer was she when, on Sunday morn, while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the... | |
| 1894 - 646 pages
...directing his household. Gentle Evangeline lived, his child, and the pride of the village. . . . Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers....they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses ! . . . Ah ! fair in sooth was the maiden. ... A celestial brightness— a more etherial beautyShone... | |
| Sheldon and Company - 1895 - 384 pages
...Singular Plural Singular Plural Singular Plural LESSON CXXIX. STUDY OF SELECTION. EVAHGELINE. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers....they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses ! Fairer was she when, on Sunday morn, while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the... | |
| Sheldon and Company - 1895 - 388 pages
...beauty is a joy forever. 6. Pitt was the pilot who guided the ship of state through a stormy sea. 7. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside. 8. Necessity is the mother of invention. 9. The twilight hours like birds flew by. 10. My winged boat,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1896 - 392 pages
...his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers ; 69 Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the...her tresses ! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kino that feed in the meadows. When in the harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noontide Flagons... | |
| John Duncan Quackenbos - 1896 - 492 pages
...approach the aesthetic level, and why? Is this line from " Evangeline " aesthetically effective ? — " Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows." (Theocritus in his " Idylls," — " Sweet the heifer's music, and sweet the heifer's breath ; " and... | |
| James Baldwin - 1897 - 252 pages
...his cheeks as brown as the oak leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. 10 Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the...her tresses ! Sweet was her breath as the breath of the kine that feed in the meadows, When in the harvest heat she bore to the reapers at noontide Flagons... | |
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