 | Pádraig Ó Seaghdha - 1878 - 462 pages
...scatters blessings upon them, Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal, Wearing her Norman cap, and her kirtle of blue, and...to child, through long generations. But a celestial brightness—a more ethereal beauty— Shone on her face and encircled her form, when after confession,... | |
 | 1879 - 830 pages
...broken. Evangoline had served the Lord from her youth. Who does not remember the immortal lines : " A celestial brightness, a more ethereal beauty, Shone...serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her." This was in the beautiful village of Grand Pre, near "the forest primeval." Upon the details of the... | |
 | American literature - 1898 - 1042 pages
...Adolphus, she said : " Do you know her?" "Yes," he answered. "I met her once and found her charming. When she had passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music." "The trouble was that she thought he was marrying her for her money," commented the informant. " Ah,"... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1873 - 614 pages
...by no means to be confounded with the true Evangeline-like Quakerism of yore whereof one might say " When she had passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music." " They believed themselves the Holy Spirit," says Swedenborg (CLJ 83) : at no period of its history... | |
 | 1884 - 658 pages
...broken. Evangeline had served the Lord from her youth. Who does not remember the immortal lines : " A celestial brightness, a more ethereal beauty, Shone...serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her." This was in the beautiful village of Grand Pre, near "the forest primeval." Upon the details of the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. ibid. This is the forest primeval. Evangeline. Part I. When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. ibid. Part I, i. Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. Ibid. Part I, iii. Into... | |
 | Henry Jackson - 1874 - 298 pages
...Head in splendid style!" he exclaims, as the " Evangeline " disappears round the promontory. "'And when she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music,' eh ?" laughs Mr. Brande, quoting the words applied by the poet to her namesake ; " I believe you're... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - Maritime Provinces - 1875 - 366 pages
...scatters blessings upon them. Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal, Wearing her Norman cap, and her kirtle of blue, and...passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music." After a beautiful description of the peaceful social life of the Acadian?, nnd the betrothal of Evangeline,... | |
 | james r. osgood and company - 1875 - 382 pages
...scatters blessings upon them. Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal, Wearing her Norman cap, and her kirtle of blue, and...passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music." After a beautiful description of the peaceful social life of the Acadians, and the betrothal of Evangeline,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Acadians - 1875 - 108 pages
...congregation, and scatters blessings Down the long street she passed, with her chaplet of beads and her missal, Wearing her Norman cap, and her kirtle of blue, and...ear-rings, Brought in the olden time from France, and since,as an heirloom, Handed down from mother to child, through long generations. But a celestial brightness... | |
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. 
