 A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.  The Review of Reviews - Page 371edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 498 pages
...liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles." Helen thought Lady Blanche must be a charming creature if she was like this picture ; but somehow,... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1835 - 910 pages
...reader. CHAPTER XVIII. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. WORDSwORTH. THE end of December had come. New year's day found and left them still in Duke Street.... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature nut too bright or good For hum, ;:; nature's daily food; For transient sorrows- simple...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now 1 see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath,... | |
 | Garland - 1836 - 246 pages
...liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A being breathing thoughtful breath,... | |
 | 1836 - 436 pages
...liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature not too bright !@,4 j x $C " $ ߄ WÂ S,DE" N k %FFo (G e .N} Ƙ @ ( k IVaise, •blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1837 - 382 pages
...length, our proper level in poetry, as in society ; and take the place assigned to us as women — As creatures not too bright or good, For human nature's...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles !* We are represented as ruling by our feminine attractions, moral or exterior, the passions and imaginations... | |
 | 1837 - 898 pages
...countrce," and laid there by hands unseen on the counterpane of our crib, " A creature uot too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles 1 " What flesh so exquisitely beautiful as wax ! There is a delicacy in that material, to the inexperienced... | |
 | 1837 - 860 pages
...virgin-liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature uot too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient...simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smile«. 134 135 And now I tee, with eye serene, The тегу poise of the machine ; A being breathing... | |
 | James Gregor Grant - 1838 - 290 pages
...767461 And though a Spirit yet, and bright With something of an angel's light, A creature not too bright or good, For human nature's daily food, For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles ! Wordtworth. CONSTANCE DE MOWBRAY followed with her eye the disappearing Abbess and attendant, until... | |
 | 1870 - 726 pages
...She was " A spirit, yet a woman, too * * * * • A creature not too bright or good For human natnre'i daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles." Our own day and our own literature are not barren in instances of such unions, nor lacking in painful... | |
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