 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...unworthy of note is to him, in the words of Spenser, — "A sveet, attractive kind of grace ; A foil assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face ; The lineaments of gospel books." 2 "Handsome is that handsome does; hold up your heads, girls !" was the language of Primrose in the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Children - 1858 - 328 pages
...are about it ! " he archly replied. In general, as Sir Philip Sydney says in one of his sonnets, " To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while." Neither he nor his brother could ever catch the tone or words of cant. They could not for the life... | |
 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 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...face, The lineaments of Gospel books ; I trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye." The poem (page 405,) " To Henry Wriothesly,... | |
 | Susan Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner - American fiction - 1860 - 528 pages
...rest." He smiled a little and gave the quotation on that point in his own clear and perfect manner. " 'A sweet, attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance...face ; The lineaments of gospel books,— I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.' " The quotation was received variously,... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1860 - 320 pages
...that of even one perishing soul ? CHAPTEE VIII. DR. GEACE. " A sweet attractive kind of grace, A fall assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books. I trow that countenance cannot lie Whose thoughts are visible to the eye." A BOUT a fortnight after this Mr. Bolter... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1862 - 418 pages
...mount, His personage seein'd most divine ; A thousand graces one might count Upon his lovely cheerful eyne. To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were...grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comforts in a face ; The lineaments of Gospel books : I trow that count'nance cannot lie, Whose thoughts... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...dark my countenance I shut my life from happier chance. Tennyion. COUNTENANCE -Définitions of the. A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance...face, The lineaments of Gospel books ; — I trow that countenance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. Spenier* COUNTENANCE— Expression of... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - English poetry - 1863 - 420 pages
...mount, His personage seem'd most divine ; A thousand graces one might count Upon his lovely cheerful eyne. To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were...grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comforts in a face ; The lineaments of Gospel books : I trow that count'nance cannot lie, Whose thoughts... | |
 | Emily Taylor - English poetry - 1864 - 210 pages
...mount, His personage seem'd most divine ; A thousand graces one might count Upon his lovely cheerful eyne. To hear him speak and sweetly smile, You were...face, The lineaments of Gospel books : I trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in th' eye. Above all others, this is he, Which... | |
 | 1865 - 1022 pages
...mental, and physical perfection. In him, while he lived, his friends, neither mean nor few, found " A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance...comfort in a face, The lineaments of gospel books." In him, after his death, they mourned "A spotless friend, a matchless man, whose virtue ever shined,... | |
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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... 
