 She was a brown beauty; that is, her eyes, hair, and eyebrows and eyelashes were dark, her hair curling with rich undulations and waving over her shoulders; but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in sunshine, except her cheeks which were a bright...  The New England Magazine - Page 1711906Full view - About this book
 | 1854 - 718 pages
...shoulders; but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in sunshine ; except her cheeks, which were a bright red, and her lips, which were of a still deeper...were too large and full, and so they might be for • goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look was love, whose voice was... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1852 - 698 pages
...shoulders; but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in sunshine; except her cheeks, which were a bright red, and her lips, which were of a still deeper...goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look was love, whose FILIA PULCRIOR. 305 voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1852 - 702 pages
...shoulders: but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in sunshine; except her cheeks, which were a bright red, and her lips, which were of a still deeper...goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry,... | |
 | 1853 - 582 pages
...shoulders ; but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in sunshine ; except her cheeks, which were a bright red, and her lips, which were of a still deeper...goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry,... | |
 | 1852 - 390 pages
...viscountess had already alluded to him a few lines previously, when she spoke of " le Boy (d'icy)." were of a still deeper crimson. Her mouth and chin,...goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry,... | |
 | 1852 - 524 pages
...alluded to him a few lines previously, when she spoke of " le Roy (d'icy)." * Step-mother, rather. were of a still deeper crimson. Her mouth and chin,...goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry,... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1853 - 814 pages
...shoulders; but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in sunshine; except her cheeks, which were a bright red, and her lips, which were of a still deeper...goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 504 pages
...shoulders ; but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in sunshine ; except her cheeks, which were a bright red, and her lips, which were of a still deeper...chin, they said, were too large and full, and so they BEATRIX. 211 might be for a goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 492 pages
...shoulders ; but her complexion was as dazzling white as snow in sunshine ; except her cheeks, which were a bright red, and her lips, which were of a still deeper crimson Her month and chin, they said, were too large and full, and so they might be for a goddess in marble, but... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1897 - 876 pages
...eighteenth-century lover's rhapsody, but, as the following passage shows, Thackeray has improved upon his model : 'Her mouth and chin, they said, were too large and...goddess in marble, but not for a woman whose eyes were fire, whose look was love, whose voice was the sweetest love song, whose shape was perfect symmetry,... | |
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