... were of a still deeper crimson. Her mouth and chin, they said, were too large and full, and so they might be for a 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... The New England Magazine - Page 1711906Full view - About this book
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 504 pages
...was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry, health, decision, activity, whose foot as it planted itself on the ground,...sarcastic, there was no single movement of hers but was beautiful. As he thinks of her, he who writes feels young again, and remembers a paragon. So she... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1897 - 876 pages
...was love, whose voice was the sweetest love song, whose shape was perfect symmetry, health, decision, activity ; whose foot, as it planted itself on the...flexible, and whose motion, whether rapid or slow, was perfect grace ; agile as a nymph, lofty as a queen, now melting, now imperious. There was no single... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry, health, decision, activity, whose foot as it planted itself on the ground,...sarcastic, there was no single movement of hers but was beautiful. As he thinks of her, he who writes feels young again, and remembers a paragon. So she... | |
| Nassau William Senior - 1864 - 538 pages
...was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry, health, decision, activity ; whose foot as it planted itself on the...sarcastic, there was no single movement of hers but was beautiful. As he thinks of her, he •who writes feels young again, and remembers a paragon. Beatrix... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - 498 pages
...was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry, health, decision, activity, whose foot as it planted itself on the ground...sarcastic — there was no single movement of hers but was beautiful. As he thinks of her, he who writes feels young again, and remembers a paragon. So she... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 886 pages
...was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry, health, decision, activity, whose foot as it planted itself on the ground...sarcastic — there was no single movement of hers but was beautiful. As he Uiiiiks of her, he who writes feels young again, and remembers a jmragon. So she... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 898 pages
...was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry, health, decision, activity, whose foot as it planted itself on the ground...sarcastic, — there was no single movement of hers but was beautiful. As he thinks of her, he who writes feels young again, and remembers a paragon. So she... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 568 pages
...was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry, health, decision, activity, whose foot as it planted itself on the ground...sarcastic — there was no single movement of hers but was beautiful. As he thinks of her, he who writes feels young again, and remembers a paragon. So she... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 884 pages
...was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry, health, decision, activity, whose foot as it planted itself on the ground...always perfect grace — agile as a nymph, lofty as a ijueen, — now melting, now imperious, now sarcastic — there was no single movement of hers but... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 456 pages
...was love, whose voice was the sweetest low song, whose shape was perfect symmetry, health. decision, activity, whose foot as it planted itself on the ground...firm but flexible, and whose motion, whether rapid or slow_ was always perfect grace — agile as a nymph, lofty as a queen — now melting, now imperious,... | |
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