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" Without the features of a regular beauty, she was rich in personal attractions ; "a form that was fashioned as light as a fay's ; " a complexion of the clearest and lightest olive ; eyes large, deep-set and dazzling, of the finest Italian brown ; and... "
Sir Walter Scott - Page 41
by William Shillinglaw Crockett, Sir James Lewis Caw - 1903 - 44 pages
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 452 pages
...of the party. Previously I had always supposed these verses to have been inspired by Miss Carpenter. rich in personal attractions; " a form that was fashioned...profusion of silken tresses, black as the raven's wing—her address hovering between the reserve of a pretty young Englishwoman who has not mingled...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 610 pages
...was his first introduction to Charlotte Margaret Carpenter. Without the features of a regular beauty, she was rich in personal attractions ; " a form that...complexion of the clearest and lightest olive ; eyes Targe, deep-set and dazzling, of the finest Italian brown ; and a profusion of silken tresses, black...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart, Volume 1

John Gibson Lockhart - 1839 - 422 pages
...was his first introduction to Charlotte Margaret Carpenter. Without the features of a regular beauty, she was rich in personal attractions ; " a form that...and dazzling, of the finest Italian brown ; and a profusionof silken tresses, black as the raven's wing — her address hovering between, the reserve...
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

John Gibson Lockhart - 1850 - 868 pages
...was his first introduction to Charlotte Margaret Carpenter. Without the features of a regular beauty, she was rich in personal attractions; " a form that...was» fashioned as light as a fay's;" a complexion of tho clearest and lightest olive; eyes large, deep-set and dazzling, of the finest Italian brown; and...
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Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

John Gibson Lockhart - 1853 - 906 pages
...was his first introduction to Charlotte Margaret Carpenter. Without the features of a regular beauty, she was rich in personal attractions ; " a form that...Italian brown ; and a profusion of silken tresses, black 1 as the raven's wing; her address hovering between the reserve of a pretty young Englishwoman who...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volume 2

William Howitt - 1856 - 558 pages
...' a form that was fashioned as light as a fairy's;' a complexion of the clearest and the brightest olive ; eyes large, deep-set and dazzling, of the finest Italian brown ; and a profusion of silken tressex black as the raven's wing: her address hovering beween the reserve of a pretty Englishwoman...
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Novels and Novelists: From Elizabeth to Victoria, Volume 2

John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 594 pages
...which place he met at a ball (he had met her once before, when out riding), a young lady who had " a complexion of the clearest and lightest olive ;...profusion of silken tresses, black as the raven's wing." This young lady, the orphan daughter of Jean Charpentier, of Lyons, a devoted loyalist, by his wife...
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Northumberland, and the Border

Walter White - 1859 - 498 pages
...sojourning at Gilsland when the lady described as " a form that was fashioned as light as a fay's ; with a complexion of the clearest and lightest olive ;...profusion of silken tresses, black as the raven's wing," passed him on horseback. They were married the following December in St. Mary's church at Carlisle....
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets

William Howitt - 1863 - 726 pages
...' a form that was fashioned as light as a fairy's ;' a complexion of the clearest and the brightest olive ; eyes large, deep-set, and dazzling of the...wing : her address hovering between the reserve of i pretty Englishwoman who has not mingled largely in general society, and a certain natural archness...
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The poetical works of sir Walter Scott. Illustr. by F. Gilbert

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 pages
...regular beauty, and was rich in personal attractions." She had a form that was liprht as a fairy's; a complexion of the clearest and lightest olive; eyes, large, deep-set, and dazzling] of the tlnest Italian brown ; and a profusion of silken tresses, black as the raven's wing. Her address hovered...
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