| Hester Chapone - 1821 - 358 Seiten
...without meanness, and simple elegance without affectation. Milton had my idea, when he says of Kvo— Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. AMUSEMENTS. EVERY period of life has amusements which are natural and proper to it. You may indulge... | |
| Heron - 1821 - 944 Seiten
..."And " And then, to sum up all, she is the most amiable, the most captivating of her sex. ' Grace is in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love." As he spoke, flourishing about the room like a tragedy hero, he dashed down a china vase, and broke... | |
| Isaac Wilcockson - 1822 - 142 Seiten
...bewitching than on this occasion,) did not, it seems, resemble the Eve of Milton, of whom it is said, Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love ! The butchers' company were about forty in number ; they had til new white aprons and steels hung... | |
| 1822 - 284 Seiten
...Maker, though unseen, And guided by his voice; nor uninform'd Of nuptial sanctity, and marriage rites. Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. I, overjoy'd, could not forbear aloud: Of all thy gifts! nor etiviest. I now see Bone of my bone, flesh... | |
| 1822 - 614 Seiten
...Syren, sn ;e discarded chere amie of an illustrious personage — e Was really an earthly divinity — " Grace was in all her steps, " Heaven in her eye, " In every feature wantonness and love." She was the ignis fatuus that seduced young men to Jenkins's Elysium,... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - 1823 - 68 Seiten
...invites him to the happy union by the sweet whispers, of love. He sees the charming maid — " Grace in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and charm. He feels a joy unfelt before." Eagerly inquiring after the lovely tranger, every tongue celebrates... | |
| 1824 - 408 Seiten
...indicating thereby the pronunciation of the times, the resemblance would be still more apparent. t Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. Milton. thee to mine hostel : and yet many warnings thou madest ere thou list fully to graunt thine... | |
| 1824 - 596 Seiten
...Mary Bradford. I believe that Heaven ne'er created a fairer creature. Well might it be said of her: Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture, dignity and love. I had never seen such a woman. My sensation on beholding her was ineffable ; love would be too cold... | |
| Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 316 Seiten
...how was my soul transported, when she broke in upon my view, in all the bloom of ripened beauty ! ' Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love!' You whose souls are susceptible of the most delicate impressions, whose tender bosoms have felt the... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1824 - 408 Seiten
...your memory, you might repeat — for the quotation is not too trite for a foreigner — " Grace is in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love." But then it is grace which bays nothing, a heaven only for a husband, the dignity more of a matron... | |
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