| Anna Eliza Bray - 1844 - 892 pages
...Softness, and sweetest innocence she wears, And looks like nature in the world's first spring. ROWE. Her form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves ; unstained, and pure As ia the lily, or the mountain snow. THOMSON. Love, and meekness, Lord ! Become... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...bounty fed ; Like the gay birds that sung them to repose, Coûtent, and careless of to-morrow's fare. ead, Dost in these lines their artless tale relate ; If chance, by lone ; unstained and pure, As is the lily, or the mountain snow. The modest virtues mingled in her eyes,... | |
| Charles Waterton - 1844 - 380 pages
...the want of it, not the slightest mention is ever made. The last occupier may have been one whose " Form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves ; " " The softest blnsh that Natnre spreads, Gave colonr to her cheek : " or, on the contrary, the... | |
| Charles Waterton - 1844 - 408 pages
...the want of it, not the slightest mention is ever made. The last occupier may have been one whose " Form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves ; " " The softest hlnsh that Natnre spreads, Gave colonr to her cheek : " or, on the contrary, the... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...bounty fed, Like the gay birds that sung them to repose, Content, and careless of to-morrow's fare. Her form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves ; unstained and pure, As is the lily or the mountain snow. 1 Not the least charm of this graceful salutation... | |
| Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1846 - 436 pages
...Softness, and sweetest innocence, she wears, And looks like nature iu the world's first spring. ROWE. Her form was fresher than the morning rose. When the dew wets its leaves ; unstained, and pure As is the lily, or the mountain snow. THOMSON. Love and meekness, Lord ! Become... | |
| Anna Eliza Bray - 1846 - 436 pages
...Softness, and sweetest innocence, she wears, And looks like nature iu the world's first spring. ROWE. Her form was fresher than the morning rose. When the dew wets its leaves; unstained, and pure As is the lily, or the mountain snow. THOMSON. Love and meekness, Lord ! Become... | |
| John Glen - 1847 - 164 pages
...forming the beautiful side-drapery of her lovely countenance. As the poet most appropriately remarks, " Her form was fresher than the morning rose, when the dew wets its leaves ; Unstained and pure, as is the lily or the mountain snow; Thoughtless of beauty, she was beauty's... | |
| James Thomson - 1847 - 504 pages
...bounty fed, Like the gay birds that sung them to repose, 190 Content, and careless of to-morrow's fare. Her form was fresher than the morning rose, When the dew wets its leaves ; unstain'd and pure, As is the lily, or the mountain snow. The modest virtues mingled in her eyes,... | |
| James Thomson - 1849 - 524 pages
...bounty fed ; Like the gay birds that sm,g them to repose, 100 Content, and careloss of to-morrow's fare. Her form was fresher than the morning rose When the dew wets its leaves ; unstain'd and pure, As is the lily or the mountain-snow. The moiiest virtues mingled in her eyes,... | |
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