... had been familiar from her very birth. She treads as though her footsteps had been among marble palaces, beneath roofs of fretted gold, o'er cedar floors and pavements of jasper and porphyry — amid gardens full of statues, and flowers, and fountains,... Blackwood's Magazine - Page 4351836Full view - About this book
| Books - 1832 - 652 pages
...gardens full of statues, and flowers, and fountains, and haunting music. She is full of penetrative wisdom and genuine tenderness, and lively wit ; but...wit has not a particle of malevolence or causticity. ' It is well known that the Merchant of Venice is founded on two different tales; and in weaving together... | |
| Anna Brownell Jameson - Women in literature and art - 1832 - 378 pages
...gardens full of statues, and flowers, and fountains, and haunting music. She is full of penetrative wisdom, and genuine tenderness, and lively wit ; but...hope, and joy ; and her wit has not a particle of malevolencu or causticity. is founded on two different tales ; and in weaving together his double plot... | |
| 1836 - 928 pages
...over cedar floors and pavements of jasper and porphyry, and gardens full of statues, and flowe full of penetration, wisdom, and genuine tenderness, and...particle of malevolence or causticity. " A disposition to doubt, to suspect, and to despond in the young, argues in general some inherent weakness, moral or... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1850 - 398 pages
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| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...gardens full of statues, and flowers, and fountains, and haunting music. She is full of penetrative wisdom, and genuine tenderness, and lively wit; but,...wit has not a particle of malevolence or causticity. But all the finest parts of Portia's character are brought to bear in the trial scene. There she shines... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...gardens full of statues, and flowers, and fountains, and haunting musie. She is full of penetrative wisdom, and genuine tenderness, and lively wit; but,...of the sombre or the sad ; her affections are all mixcd up with faith, hope, and joy ; and her wit has not a particle of malevolenee or causticity. But... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...gardens full of statues, and flowers, and fountains, and haunting music. She is full of penetrative wisdom, and genuine tenderness, and lively wit; but,...wit has not a particle of malevolence or causticity. But all the finest parts of Portia's character are brought to bear in the trial scene. There she shines... | |
| Anna U. Russell - Elocution - 1853 - 580 pages
...gardens full of statues, and flowers, and fountains, and haunting music. She is full of penetrative wisdom, and genuine tenderness, and lively wit; but,...wit has not a particle of malevolence or causticity. EXERCISE CLXVIII. THE MOTHER OF WASHINGTON.* Mr*. Sigourruy. LONG hast thou slept upnoted. Nature stole... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...penetrative wisdom, and genuine tenderness, and lively wit ; hut, as she has never known want, or gricf, or fear, or disappointment, her wisdom is without a touch of the somhre or the sad ; her affections are all mixed up with faith, hope, and joy; and her wit has not... | |
| Anna Brownell Jameson, Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1858 - 314 pages
...gardens full of statues, and flowers, and fountains, and haunting music. She is full of penetrative wisdom, and genuine tenderness, and lively wit; but...wit has not a particle of malevolence or causticity. It is well known that the Merchant of Venice is founded on two different tales; and in weaving together... | |
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