 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.  Happy Evenings; Or, The Literary Institution at Home - Seite 128von Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 312 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 Seiten
...gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin...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,... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 400 Seiten
...be appreciated as they deserved. She was, in truth, formed after the imagination of the poet : — " A creature not too bright and good For human nature's...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... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1827 - 1252 Seiten
...mistress formed of plain household stuff: ' Some creature not too brightly good For human nature's daUy food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and onilea.' " " Really, Mr. Frederick Delancy, you alarm me," said Lady Harriette, looking up with gravity,... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 Seiten
...gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. I saw her upon nearer view. A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin...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,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 Seiten
...' saw Ser upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions light and free, Asrd steps of virgin liberty; A countenance in which did...records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright or good For transient sorrows, simple wiles. Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 Seiten
...view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too! Her household-motions light and free, And steps of virgin-liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not top bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame,... | |
 | 1829 - 348 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1875 - 1116 Seiten
...the noble Marquess received at the end of last Session by exaggerated credit in the Eecess. Now — For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles," are charming ingredients in those who have to deal with young children ; but I am not quite sure that... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - 354 Seiten
...to remark touching the ancients. womanhood. Under the first I would write Wordsworth's lines — ' 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,... | |
 | Letitia Elizabeth Landon - 1831 - 360 Seiten
...nothing to remark touching the ancients. womanhood. Under the first I would write Wordsworth's lines— ' 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,... | |
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