| Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 496 páginas
...describes Eve, Adorn'd With what all Earth of Heaven could bestowTo riiiike her amiable. Again, Graee was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture, dignity and love. Or, as Waller sweetly, though less sublimely, sings : Sweetness, truth, and every graee, Which time... | |
| Jane West - 1806 - 746 páginas
...impenitent wanton bear to his picture of our general mother in her state of innocence ? " Grace wa» in all her steps, heaven in her eye, " In, every gesture dignity and love." My limited knowledge of high life jnakes me suspect, that the blind infatuation of the worshipper often... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1806 - 300 páginas
...your memory, you might repeat— for the quotation is not too trite for a foreigner — " Grace is in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and lore." But then it is grace which says nothing, a heaven only for a husband, the dignity more of a... | |
| Patrick Graham - 1807 - 512 páginas
...Ossian's " Loveliness was around her " as light; her steps were the music of songs," and Milton's " Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, " In every gesture dignity and love/' except the single term " steps?" — let any eye or ear judge concerning farther resemblance. Did we... | |
| Mrs. Chapone (Hester), John Gregory - 1808 - 210 páginas
...without meauness, and simple elegance without affectatiou. —Milton had my idea, when he says of Eve, Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. AMUSEMENTS. . Tp VERY period of life has amusements which are ,''-'natural and proper to it. You may... | |
| Percival Stockdale - 1809 - 498 páginas
...was Ev E ; and we might have applied to her the description of MILTON'S EVE, without exaggeration, Grace was in all her steps ; heaven in her eye ; In every gesture, dignity, and love. WILKES was not only an elegans formarum spectator, but likewise an elegant observer of the talents,... | |
| James Beattie - 1809 - 262 páginas
...and darkness; the clangour of his weapons, to the scream of the owl; the terrour he struck into the Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. Of this criticism I would observe, that the censure here passed on the poetry of the north, as compared... | |
| 1864 - 868 páginas
...Paradise Lost," b. iv. And again, for the great poet is never tired of painting this primitive beauty— " Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love." II"'1, b. viii. Of all the beauties of the human form, those assembled on the countenance were no doubt... | |
| J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 páginas
...meanness, and simple elegance without affectation. Milton had the same idea when he says of Eve .« •Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. AN ACCOUNT OF THE MAID OF ORLEANS. JOAN D'ARC, called the Maid of Orleans, was born in 1407, in the... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1815 - 524 páginas
...your memory, you might repeat — for the quotation is not too trite for a foreigner — " Grace is in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love." But theniit is grace which says nothing, •a heaven only for a husband, the dignity more of a matron... | |
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