| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1874 - 600 pages
...gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings : at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken...with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the banro A strange invisible perfume hits the Of the adjacent wharfs.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 588 pages
...did. Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended lier ¡' the eyes, And made their bends adorning» : at the helm A seeming mermaid steers...with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 488 pages
...So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings : at the helm A seem ii ig mermaid steers ; the silken tackles Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent... | |
| Robert Nares - 1888 - 524 pages
...in the Scottish dialect. See Jamieson. YARELY, adv., from yare. Quickly, neatly, readily, skilfully. The silken tackles Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands That yarely frame the office. Ant. f- Cleof., ii, 2. YATE, for gate. Used as an affectation of older language,... | |
| John William Postgate - 1916 - 172 pages
...strengthened by the lines that follow : — at the helm A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That rarely frame the office. Occasionally the emendators wrought something that was really worth while in the way of purification.... | |
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