While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd, With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon, Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez, and spiced dainties, every... Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey - Page 372by Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846Full view - About this book
| David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...would have so dallied with the image. Again, in the fine stanza from Keats's Eve of St. Agnes : — " And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched...With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon ; Manna and dates, in argosy transferred, From Fez; and spiced dainties,... | |
| John Keats - 1856 - 70 pages
...his ears, though but in dying tone : — The hall-door shuts again, and all the noise is gone. xxx. And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched...With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon ; Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez ; and spiced dainties,... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1856 - 794 pages
...forth the closet, brought a ME Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gaaif With jellies smoother than the creamy curd. And lucent syrups, tinct with...Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez ; and epiced dainties everj on«, From silken Samarcand, to cedar'd " Those delicates he heap'd with glowing... | |
| 1866 - 808 pages
...while he is a very Porphjrro in the profusion with which he heaps his board with delicates : — " Candied apple, quince and plum and gourd ; With jellies soother than the creamy curd, •cent syrops tinct with cinnamon ; •uid dates, in argosy transferred ( ; and spiced dainties, every... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...his ears, though but in dying tone : — The hall-door shuts again, and all the noise is goa« xzi. And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep In blanched...jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrups tinet with cinnamon :'« Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez; and spicid dainties every... | |
| 1861 - 788 pages
...infant's gums." Or, again, in the description of the dainties in the chapel in the Eve of St. Agnes — " And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep In blanched...lavender'd, While he from forth the closet brought a Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd, With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent... | |
| Mrs. Beeton (Isabella Mary) - 1861 - 568 pages
...table, and, half-anguish' d, threw thereou A cloth of woven crimson, gold, and jet. * * * * * '' * While he, from forth the closet, brought a heap Of...candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd; With jellies smoother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrups tinct with cinnamon ; Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd... | |
| 1861 - 520 pages
...infant's gums." Or, again, in the description of the dainties in the chapel in the Eve of St. Agnes — " And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep In blanched linen, smooth and laveuder'd, While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, aud gourd,... | |
| John Keats - 1863 - 370 pages
...his ears, though but in dying tone : — The hall-door shuts again, and all the noise is gone. XXX. And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched...With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon ; Manna and dates, in argosy transferr'd From Fez ; and spiced dainties,... | |
| George Herbert - 1863 - 732 pages
...chamber of Madeline, who sleeps an azure-lidded sleep, in blanched linen, white and laundered : " He from the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince,...creamy curd, And lucent syrups tinct with cinnamon." Exquisite is the picturesque beauty of the following stanza from the same poem, both in object and... | |
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