... 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
| 1899 - 972 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." She is radiance and light gloriouslyincarnate, is she not ? And we are all lovers with... | |
| John Hays Gardiner - 1900 - 520 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." Here... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 454 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. So she... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1902 - 480 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...motion, whether rapid or slow, was always perfect grace—agile as a nymph, lofty as a queen— now melting, now imperious, now sarcastic—there was... | |
| Charles Whibley - 1903 - 268 pages
...it plants itself upon the ground is firm but flexible, and whose motion, whether rapid or slow, is always perfect grace — agile as a nymph, lofty as...now melting, now imperious, now sarcastic — there is no single movement of hers but is beautiful." What wonder that, as he thought of her, he felt young... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 492 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...melting, now imperious, now sarcastic — there was 110 single movement of hers but was beautiful. As he thinks of her, he who writes feels young again,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 348 pages
...shape was perfect symmetry, health, decision, activity, whose foot as it planted itself on the VOL. I. ground was firm but flexible, and whose motion, whether...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... | |
| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 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. So she... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 558 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...lofty as a queen — now melting, now imperious, now sarcastick, there was no single movement of hers but was beautiful. By the great crachling fire. As... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 444 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 was firm but flexible, and whose motion, [275] whether rapid or slow, was always perfect grace — agile as a nymph, lofty as a queen — now... | |
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