 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1835 - 910 pages
...proposed to ourselves in selecting her history for the entertainment of the reader. CHAPTER XVIII. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles,... | |
 | Garland - 1836 - 246 pages
...delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight's,...Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not... | |
 | 1836 - 436 pages
...Jiut all things else about hc-r drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A Jancing Shape, an linage gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon...Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1836 - 368 pages
...delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's,...dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time's brightest, liveliest dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.... | |
 | 1837 - 562 pages
...mingled with surprise that so lovely and graceful a creature should be born in so humble a situation. " Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight's...dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-layI saw her, upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions light and free,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1859 - 672 pages
...not, however, disenchant my fancy of the earlier picture — of a gracious youthful presence, with eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilight's, too,...about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn. Heaven forbid that I should ever lose the habit I have, when looking into the face of aged womanhood,... | |
 | 1837 - 860 pages
...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 twilight's,...dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time's brightest, liveliest dawn,— A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...When the day its noon hath past, Increasing as Life's sun goes down, Ev'n till it has look'd its last. I SAW her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman...Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet: A creature not too... | |
 | 1837 - 418 pages
...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 her drawn From May time and the cheerful dawn. A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay." She... | |
 | James Gregor Grant - 1838 - 290 pages
...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,...Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command : With reason firm,... | |
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She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A 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 her drawn From May-time and the... 
