Would, like the Patriarch's, soothe a dying hour, With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower ; With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil ; With motions graceful as a bird's in air ; Thou art, in sober truth,... Cooper's Works: The oak-openings - Seite 246von James Fenimore Cooper - 1860Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - 1828 - 384 Seiten
...Who will believe that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the Patriarch's, sooth a dying hour ; With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlight bower ; With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil ; With motions, graceful as... | |
| Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - 1832 - 344 Seiten
...— that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the patriarch's, sooth a dy»Fg hojingf- .--»-' "With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlight bower ; With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil ; With motions, graceful as... | |
| Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - 1832 - 344 Seiten
...sooth a dying hour ; With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden s lip in moonlight bower ; With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil; With motions, graceful as a bird's in air ; Thou art, in sober truth, the veriest devil That e'er clenched fingers in a captive's... | |
| 1832 - 338 Seiten
...asks the poet — that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the patriarch's, sooth a dying hour ; With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlight bower ; With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil; With motions, graceful as a... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 Seiten
...believe', that', with a smile whose blessing* Would', like the patriarch's',* soothe a dying hour'; With voice', as low', as gentle', and caressing', As e'er'' won maiden's lip in moonlight bower'; With look', like patient Job's', eschewing0 evil'; With motions', graceful... | |
| Joseph Rodman Drake - 1835 - 226 Seiten
...Who will believe that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the Patriarch's, sooth a dying hour, With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower ; With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil ; With motions graceful, as a... | |
| Alnwick Castle, Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1836 - 114 Seiten
...Patriarch's, sooth a dying hour, With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower; With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil; With motions graceful, as a bird's in air; Thou art, in sober truth, the veriest devil That e'er clenched fingers in a captive's... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1836 - 112 Seiten
...Who will believe that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the Patriarch's, sooth a dying hour, With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower; With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil; With motions graceful, as a bird's... | |
| 1837 - 552 Seiten
...patriarch's, sooth a dying hour, With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won marden's lip in moonlit bower; " With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil; With motions graceful, as a bird's in air; Thou art, in sober truth, the veriest devil That e'er clenched fingers in a captive's... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1837 - 572 Seiten
...Who will believe that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the patriarch's,-sooth a dying hour, With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower; " With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil; With motions graceful, as a... | |
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