 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
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...countree," and laid there by hands unseen on the counterpane of our crib, " A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, hisses, tears, and smiles!" What flesh so exquisitely beautiful as wax! There is a delicacy in that... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - 1843 - 884 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. WORDSWORTH. ON the ensuing morning, anxious to inquire after the health of his fair acquaintance of... | |
 | 1843 - 184 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,... | |
 | 1843 - 600 pages
...countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For humun nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright ve« you your army f or that it is the mutiny hill...exists but what is gross and material ; and who, t And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A being breathing thoughtful breath,... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 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, A... | |
 | Life - 1844 - 308 pages
...startle, and waylay. 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. A perfect woman nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still and bright,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright ell pleased as when a judicious critic pointe out...what is the purpose of showing a work to a friend i And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A being breathing thoughtful breath,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 pages
...sweetest picture of woman that ever dawned on poet's brain. Stella was — " A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food ; For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles !" * • * * • " A being breathing thoughtful breath ; A traveller betwixt life and death ; A perfect... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1844 - 456 pages
...nurse. Phoebe might have .her faults, but we must take her as she was — A creature not too bright and good, For human nature's daily food, For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. Unfortunately for her future happiness, she had attracted the notice of the lady of the manor, and... | |
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