 | Great Britain - 1823 - 468 pages
...May-time and the cheerful Dawn : A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, and startle, and way -lay. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. " Beautiful verses, truly," quoth Mrs. Elizabeth ; " and a beautiful creature she must have been."... | |
 | Great Britain - 1823 - 474 pages
...May-time and the cheerful Dawn : A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, and startle, and way-lay. 1 saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too!...For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, lore, kisses, tears, and smiles. " Beautiful verses, truly," quoth Mrs. Elizabeth ; " and a beautiful... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1823 - 264 pages
...way-lay. J saw her upon nearer view, * A Spirit, yet a Woman loo ! Her household motioni light and frer. And steps of virgin liberty; A countenance in which...good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrow, simple wiles, Praise, blame, lore, kisses, tears, and smiles.'1 " Beautiful verses truly,"... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - College stories - 1823 - 380 pages
...May-time and the cheerful Dawn : A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, and startle, and way-lay. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman...free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance hi which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's... | |
 | 1824 - 446 pages
...From May-time an3 the cheerful fawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view A Spirit, yet a Woman too...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see, with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath,... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - English essays - 1824 - 446 pages
...Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view A Spirit, yet a Woman tool Her household motions light and free, And steps of...simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiled. And now I see, with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...From May time and the cheerful dawn. A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A being breathing thoughtful breath,... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1826 - 550 pages
...anchored in the still depths of female tenderness. Yet his heroines, though Creatures not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, — For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles, — are by no means homely and uninteresting ; however lowly their lot, there is about them all ' a... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath,... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 400 pages
...deserved. She was, in truth, formed after the imagination of the poet : — " A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food, For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. Such were the two most charming women whom I have ever known ; nor was the character of their attraction... | |
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A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. 
