...Phantom of delight,' 3 1 Vol. ip 209. * Vol. ii. p. 100 : — ' She was a Phantom of delight When f1rst she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent...moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; 1 written in the third year of his married life. From these...

...PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. C3 SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. SHE was a phantom of delight, When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the...

...of personal, mental, and moral graces : — " * She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam' d upon my sight— A lovely apparition sent To be a moment's ornament. , - Her eyes like stars of twilight fair — Like twilight too her dusky hair ; But all about her else was drawn...

...know — ' her eyes ' — ' Like stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight, too, her dark brown hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.' But strange it is to tell that, in these eyes of vesper gentleness, there was a considerable obliquity...

...know — ' her eyes ' — ' Like stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight, too, her dark brown hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.' But strange it is to tell that, in these eyes of vesper gentleness, there was a considerable obliquity...

...consideration, the deepest mourning; that sole expression there was about her of gloom or solemn feeling,— Bat all things else about her drawn, From May-time and the cheerful dawn. Odious blue-stocking of Belfast and Dublin ! how I hated you up to that moment! half an hour after...

...in the "ars medendi;" but few are aware how oft it has swollen the bills of mortality. CHAPTEE III. She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight too her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May time and the cheerful...

...in the "ars inedendi;" but few are aware how oft it has swollen the bills of mortality. CHAPTEE III. She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight too her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May time and the cheerful...

...1802. Every one will remember the beautiful lines which the poet has addressed to her, commencing — "She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight." And it is pleasant to add that the illusion of this first love never died out of his heart. De Quincy...

...talent for discussion and analytic skill may be inferred from his celebrated verses, beginning : ' She was a phantom of delight • When first she gleamed upon my sight ;' and ending with this matchless winding up jjf ' A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort,...