 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Italy - 1841 - 564 pages
...with few ideal attractions. His vows were paid to 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. Her positive and tangible graces were enough for him. He sought not to exalt them, but only to exhibit... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 360 pages
...the cheerful dawn; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. " I saw her on a nearer view, A spirit yet a woman too! Her household...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,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...Like a ladye from a far countree," and laid there by hands unseen on the counterpane of our crib, " A creature not too bright or good For human nature's...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles !" What flesh so exquisitely beautiful as wax ! There is a delicacy in that material, to the inexperienced... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Frontier and pioneer life - 1842 - 262 pages
...world is not half so respectable as Aunty Parshalls standing on her dish-kettle ! 183 CHAPTER XLIV. A creature not too bright or good For human nature's...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. WORDSWORTH. THE love of dress is said by some to be the ruling passion of the female soul. This is... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...Like a ladye from a far countree," and laid there by hands unseen on the counterpane of our crib, " A creature not too bright or good For human nature's...transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, hisses, tears, and smiles!" What flesh so exquisitely beautiful as wax! There is a delicacy in that... | |
 | 1842 - 452 pages
...the difficulty he found in creating " a spirit, yet a woman too," ' ' A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food. For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles." Most readers turn with indifference from llose Bradwardine, Julia Manwaring, and a dozen others. Diana... | |
 | Lucy Hooper - 1842 - 304 pages
...practical example of her life, how does it realize to us the exquisite picture of Wordsworth ; We see her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free And step of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature... | |
 | Charles Henry Knox - 1842 - 968 pages
...SOFTNESS. I forget how they go on,—oh, yes, I remet her,'' continued she, looking fondly at Eliza :" ' A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food. For tiansient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, lore, kisses, tears, and smiles.' " Sir Thomas could... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1843 - 884 pages
...then drove off, and Granville returned, without farther interruption, to his residence. CHAPTER IV. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles. WORDSWORTH. ON the ensuing morning, anxious to inquire after the health of his fair acquaintance of... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...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,... | |
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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. 
