 How would the dark line steal imperceptibly on, watched by the eye of childhood, eager to detect its movement, never catched, nice as an evanescent cloud, or the first arrests of sleep 1 Ah ! yet doth beauty like a dial hand Steal from his figure, and...  The Essays of Elia - Page 111by Charles Lamb - 1907 - 337 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Dramatists, English - 1787 - 722 pages
...ften, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burred, Since firft J faw you frefh which yet are green. Ah ! yet doth beauty , like a dial hand , Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv'd, So your fweet hue, which methinks ftiil cloth Hand, Hath motion , and mine eye may be deceiv'd.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 224 pages
...Three April purfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Since first I saw you, fresh, which yet are green. Ah ! yet doth beauty, like a dial hand, Steal from his figure, and no place perceiv'd ; So your sweet hue, which, methinks, still does stand,. Hath motion, and mine eye... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...seen, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes bum'd, Since first I saw you fresh which yet are green. Ah ! yet doth beauty, like a dial hand, Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv'd, So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand, Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceiv'd.... | |
 | Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...the lines are in one of his minor poems, they may probably have escaped the notice of common readers: Ah yet doth beauty like a dial hand Steal from his figure, and no place perceiv'd; So your sweet luif, which methinks still doth stand, Hath motion, and mine eye may... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...Since first I saw you, fresh, which yet are green. Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Ah ! yet doth beauty, like a dial hand. Steal from his figure, and no place perceiv'd ; So your sweet hue, which, methinks, still does stand, Hath motion, and mine eye may... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 408 pages
...Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'ej, Sinee first I saw you fresh, whieh yet are green. Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial hand, Steal from his figure, and no paee pereeiv'd, So your sweet hue, whieh methinks still doth stand, Hath motion, and mine eye may be... | |
 | 1821 - 724 pages
...revelations of its (light immediately from heaven, holding correspondence with the fountain of light ! How would the dark line steal imperceptibly on, watched...an evanescent cloud, or the first arrests of sleep ! Ah ! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand Steal from his figure, and DO pace perceived ! What a dead... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...seen; Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green. Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial hand, Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv'd 7 ; So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand, Hath motion 8 , and mine eye may... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...seen; Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green. Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial hand, Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv'd 7 ; So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand, Hath motion 8 , and mine eye may... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...suggests that Shakspeare may have written ' for the scorn of time To point his slow nnmoving finger at/ ' Ah ! yet doth beauty, like a dial hand, Steal from his figure, and no pace perceived; So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand, Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived.' The... | |
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