 She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the...  The Etonian - Pagina 1241824Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pagina’s
...Oswald's steady aim. Excursion, book vii. A PORTRAIT. She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's...But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 524 pagina’s
...delight,' 3 1 Vol. ip 209. * Vol. ii. p. 100 : — ' She was a Phantom of delight When f1rst she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a...Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; 1 written in the third year of his married life. From these verses let him proceed to the following... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 492 pagina’s
...gentler spring That went before my steps. Thereafter came One whom with thee friendship had early paired; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's,...But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. " I saw her... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pagina’s
...upon Mr. Wordsworth's charming female portrait: She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight: A lovely apparition sent , To be a...ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1851 - 636 pagina’s
...notes published in his Life, was addressed to his wife, expresses how sincerely he esteemed her : " She was a phantom of delight "When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To bo a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilight's too her dusky hair ; But... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 pagina’s
...of personal, mental, and moral graces : — " * She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam' d upon my sight— A lovely apparition sent To be a moment's ornament. , - Her eyes like stars of twilight fair — Like twilight too her dusky hair ; But all about her else was drawn... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 384 pagina’s
...talent for discussion and analytic skill, may be inferred from his celebrated verses, beginning — ' She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight;' and ending with this matchless winding up of an intellectual homage, involving a description of an... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth - 1851 - 506 pagina’s
...delight,' " 1 Vol. ip 209. » Vol. ii. p. 100 : — ' She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her ayes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; written in the third year of... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 386 pagina’s
...talent for discussion and analytic skill, may be inferred from his celebrated verses, beginning — ' She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; ' and ending with this matchless winding up of an intellectual homage, involving a description of... | |
 | Anne Marsh- Caldwell - 1851 - 924 pagina’s
...might both their fates have been 1 I CHAPTER X. " Her eyes like stars of twilight fair, Like twilight, too, her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From daylight and the cheerful dawn." WORDSWORTH. PEOPLE in stories always go to fancy-balls, and offend... | |
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