 | Decorative arts - 462 pages
...bounding, skimming, enjoying motion, as if native to the element, which might have become a Nai ad. I have seen her on the topmost round of a ladder,...house, flinging down the grapes that no one else had necvo enough to reach, laughing and gam landed and crowned with vine^eavesj like a Bacchante. But the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Country life - 1824 - 312 pages
...skimming, enjoying motion, as if native to the element, which might have become a Naiad. I have seen her pn the topmost round of a ladder, with one foot on the...flinging down the grapes that no one else had nerve enottgh to reach, laughing, and garlanded, and crowned with vine-leaves, like a Bacchante. But the... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...caught up just a little ahove the ancle, like a young Diana, and a hounding, skimming, enjoying, mution, as if native to the element, which might have hecome...circumstances under which I ever saw her, was driving a dunkey cart up a hill one sunny windy day, in September. It was a gay party of young: women, some walking,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - English essays - 1825 - 312 pages
...Diana, and a bounding, skimming, enjoying motion, as if native to the element, which might have become a Naiad. I have seen her on the topmost round of a...to reach, laughing, and garlanded, and crowned with vine-leaves, like a Bacchante. But the prettiest combination of circumstances under which I ever saw... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Country life - 1828 - 250 pages
...Diana, and a bounding, skimming, enjoying motion, as if native to the element, which might have become a Naiad. I have seen her on the topmost round of a...with vine leaves, like a Bacchante. But the prettiest combination of circumstances under which I ever saw her, was driving a donkey cart up a hill one sunny... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - English essays - 1828 - 302 pages
...Diana, and a bounding, skimming, enjoying motion, as if native to the element, which might have become a Naiad. I have seen her on the topmost round of a...ladder, with one foot on the roof of a house, flinging dowa the grapes that no one else had nerve enough to reach, laughing, and garlanded, and crowned with... | |
 | Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 pages
...motion, as if native to the element, which might have become a Naiad. I have seen her on the topmast round of a ladder, with one foot on the roof of a house, flinging down the grapes that no one elie had nerve enough о reach, laughing, and garlanded, and crowned with vine-leaves, like a Bacchante.... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1832 - 410 pages
...Diana, and a bounding, skimming, enjoying motion, as if native to the element, which might have become a Naiad. I have seen her on the topmost round of a...with vine leaves, like a Bacchante. But the prettiest combination of circumstances under which I ever saw her, was driving a donkey cart up a hill one sunny... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 440 pages
...Diana, and a bounding, skimming, enjoying motion, as if native to the element which might have become a Naiad. I have seen her on the topmost round of a...to reach, laughing and garlanded, and crowned with vine-leaves, like a Bacchante. But the prettiest combination of circumstances under which I ever saw... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 432 pages
...Diana, and a bounding, skimming, enjoying motion, as if native to the element which might have become a Naiad. I have seen her on the topmost round of a...to reach, laughing and garlanded, and crowned with vine-leaves, like a Bacchante. But the prettiest combination of circumstances under which I ever saw... | |
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... like a young Diana, and a bounding, skimming, enjoying motion, as if native to the element, which might have become a Naiad. I have seen her on the topmost round of a ladder, with one foot on the roof of a house, flinging down the grapes that no one... 
