 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
 | Thomas Powell - 1850 - 382 pages
...the feudal times. The heroine, Evangeline, is thus introduced ; not very happily, we think : " Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the herry that grows on the thorn hy the way-side, ; • Black, yet how softly they gleamed heneath the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 pages
...ordinary prose. We commence our extracts from " Evangeline " with the description of the heroine. " Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers....her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the way side ; Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses ! Sweet was her... | |
 | 1852 - 620 pages
...ordinary prose. We commence our extracts from " Evangeline" with the description of the heroine. " Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers....were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by tho way side ; Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses ! Sweet was... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 124 pages
...with snow-flakes ; White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oakleaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry thatgrows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...snow-flakes; AYhite äs the snow were his locks, and his cheeks äs brown äs the oak-leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes äs the berry that grows on the thorn by the way-side, Black, yet how softly they gleamed bcnesth the... | |
 | Drawing-room sibyl - 1855 - 464 pages
...springs have gone. Anna Seivard. 38 Fair she is to behold, the maiden of seventeen summers ; Black are her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside. Longfellow. 39 Summers three times eight, save one, she hath told. Milton. 40 She labours under many... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 432 pages
.../ m ' ~'^ •• 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....they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses ! 248 EVANGEL1NE. Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows. When in the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 116 pages
...with snow-flakes ; White as the snow were his locks, and his checks as brown as the oak-leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers....they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses ! EVANGELINE. Sweet was her breath as the breath of kiue that feed in the meadows. When in the harvest... | |
 | East India college - 1856 - 480 pages
...how excellent is the saying of the Poet Hayya Watha, and he is a poet of the poets of the Yan Kees : "Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the way-side." And when I beheld her, my senses fled, and my mind became bewildered, my li^er was turned into water,... | |
 | 1900 - 352 pages
...toils in the surf of the ocean, Bent, but not broken by age, was the form of the notary public." 3. "Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows." 4. "Men whose lives glided on like rivers that water the woodlands, Darkened by shadows of earth, but... | |
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