 The sportive toil, which, short and light, Had dyed her glowing hue so bright, Served too in hastier swell to show...  Flora's Dictionary - Page 56by Elizabeth Washington Wirt - 1837 - 220 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dorothea Primrose Campbell - 1821 - 552 pages
...there. CHAPCHAPTER IX. What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had train'd her pace, A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dasb'd the dew. What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the Thulian tongue, Those silver... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...of Grecian art, In listening mood, she seem'd to stand The guardian Naiad of the strand. XVIII. And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face ! What though the sun, with ardent frown, Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown, The sportive toil,... | |
 | 1833 - 570 pages
...spaniel, who, as if inspired with her gaiety, went bounding after her splphlike figure, than whose " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew." The children of the tenantry used to follow her at a respectful distance, to see her... | |
 | Julia Catherine Beckwith Hart - Emigration and immigration - 1825 - 296 pages
...VOLUMES IN OWE, VOL. II. WATERTOWN: PUBLISHED BY JAMES Q. ADAMS* '• ******* OR A TALE. CHAPTER £1. And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face. At length, with Ellen in a grove, •He seemed to walk anrt speak of love, She listened wilh a blush... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1825 - 1096 pages
...monument of Grecian art, In list'ning mood, she seem'd to stand The guardian Naiad of the strand. Am! ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face ! What though the sun, with ardent frown, Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown,— The sportive... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent - Floriculture - 1825 - 516 pages
...of it by that title : " What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace ? A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew : E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread." LADY OF THE... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...of Grecian art. In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. XVIII. And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face ! What though the sun, with ardent frown, Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown, The sportive toil,... | |
 | James Lawson Drummond - 1826 - 420 pages
...the Lake, would be quite absurd were the flower there mentioned, intended to be the English harebell. A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread. When applied to the campanula it is very... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...monument of Grecian art. In listening mood she seemed to stand. The guardian Naiad of the strand. And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face ! What though the sun, with ardent frown, Had slightly tinged her cheek with brow*. The sportive toil,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...monument of Grecian art. In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face I What though the sun with ardent frown, Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown, — The sportive... | |
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