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" SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. "
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron: With Life
by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1857 - 576 pages
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The pirate

Walter Scott - 1853 - 654 pages
...thought to have anticipated, though only in a rude outline, the exfluisite lines of Lord Byron, — " She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes...and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mdlovv'cl to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies." Their father loved the maidens both...
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Waverley Novels ...: The pirate

Walter Scott - 1853 - 406 pages
...Byron, — " She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And All that 'a best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her...that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies." Their father loved the maidens both so well, that it might be difficult to say which he loved best...
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Waverley Novels, Volume 13

Walter Scott - 1853 - 534 pages
...lines of Lord Byron, — " She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry bkies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her...Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaady day denies." Their father loved the maidens both so well, that it might be difficult to say which...
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Edith: Or, The Light of Home

Eliza B. Davis - American fiction - 1856 - 300 pages
...Wo loved thee passing well: then wert a beam Of pleasant beauty on this stormy sea." CHAPTER XVII. " She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes...dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies/' AFFAIRS at Glendale Farm had changed...
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The theory and practice of composition

William Hunter (rector of Ayr acad.) - 1857 - 130 pages
...Unfolding every hour ; The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow'r. COWPER, 1800. She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes...that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. BYRON, 1824. The umbrageous oak in pomp outspread, Full oft, when storms the welkin rend, Draws lightning...
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English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: On the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...BARBAULD. [GEORGE IV. SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless clinics and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and...denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half-impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o'er her face,...
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The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays ...

John Wilson - 1857 - 480 pages
...all the bright butterflies and grey grasshoppers on the plain or in the town of Troy. " She walk'd in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry...dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes." Yet was she plague, pestilence, and lingering death. But try not to withhold from her your admiration...
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Essays critical and imaginative

John Wilson - 1857 - 480 pages
...all the bright butterflies and grey grasshoppers on the plain or in the town of Troy. " She walk'd in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry...dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes." Yet was she plague, pestilence, and lingering death. But try not to withhold from her your admiration...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 95

American essays - 1905 - 880 pages
..."she looks like moonlight and starlight. 'She — walks — in beauty' — don't — you — know — 'like — the night — of — cloudless — climes...• — her — aspect — and — her — eyes.'" It was the first time that Eleanor Mason's daughter had ever seen a garden which had grown old by the...
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The book of popular songs, ed. by J.E. Carpenter

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 pages
...lo'es me. Lassie, let mo quickly die, Trusting tliat thou lo'es me. SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. [BYlioir.] She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes...and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes ; Thus mcllow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less...
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