 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1852 - 684 pages
...mount, His personage seemed most divine : A thousand graces one might count Upon hie lovely cheerful l more singular that, in the wanderings of her insanity, amidst all the vast nceet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Chntinval comfort in a face. The... | |
 | Anna Bartlett Warner - 1852 - 494 pages
...seeing that more words would be useless, my stepmother, as usual, spoke them not. CHAPTER VI. TEACUPS. " A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort iu a face, The lineaments of gospel books ; — I trow that count'nance cannot lie Whose thoughts are... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - American literature - 1852 - 286 pages
...is worthy of the minstrel of Faery Land. With the exception of some delicious rhymes, such as • " To hear him speak and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while," which are bathed in the colours and dew of his sunniest hours, the lamentation for the hero as for... | |
 | Samuel Phillips - English literature - 1852 - 268 pages
...offerings is worthy of the minstrel of Faery Land. With the exception of some delicious rhymes, such as " To hear him speak and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while," which are bathed in the colours and dew of his sunniest hours, the lamentation for the hero as for... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...Elegy on his death, beautifully describes his personal character and appearance, in a few words: " To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in...comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books; XX. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. I trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye."... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Sussex (England) - 1853 - 390 pages
...dwell upon the lineaments of his face, I cannot but call to mind those lines in Spenser's Elegie ', " A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance...Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel bookes : I trowe that countenance cannot lie Whose thoughts are legible in the eie. " Was never eie... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pages
...dwell upon the lineaments of his face, I cannot but call to mind those lines in Spenser's Elegie', " A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance...Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel bookes : I trowe that countenance cannot He Whose thoughts are legible in the eie. " Was never eie... | |
 | James Hamilton - Bible - 1853 - 400 pages
...disciple as to make that true of him which the old elegy says of one of England's finest worthies : — " A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face The lineament of Gospel-books ; For sure that count'nance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are written in the... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1854 - 452 pages
...That which to others seems commonplace and unworthy of note, is to him, in the words of Spenser, — " A sweet, attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance...comfort in a face ; The lineaments of gospel books." •"Handsome is that handsome does — hold up your heads, girls ! " was the language of Primrose in... | |
 | Theodora Elizabeth Lynch - 1854 - 540 pages
...and told as plainly as words could tell, that she endured as seeing Him who is invisible. She had " A sweet attractive kind of grace, — A full assurance...given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineament of Gospel books." It was sustaining even to think of her patient cheerfulness — aye, and... | |
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To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while. A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts... 
