| 1833 - 428 Seiten
...or the witty were honoring themselves by repeating to her — and as she moved along, "Grace was iu all her steps — heaven in her eye — In every gesture, dignity and love." As she roved about, careless of the ceaseless hum of admiration with which her ears were assailed,... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - 1833 - 60 Seiten
...invites him to the happy union by the sweet whispers, of love. He sees the charming maid — " Grace in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and charm. He feels a joy unfelt before." Eagerly inquiring after the lovely tranger, every tongue celebrates... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 612 Seiten
...perfections should irradiate her countenance, and impart a secret lustre to her minutest actions? Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. O that woman, disregarding those meretricious ornaments which rather serve to disfigure than to embellish... | |
| John Gregory - 1834 - 156 Seiten
...and simple elegance without alleetation. — Milton had my idea, when he says of Eve — Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. AMUSEMENTS. EVERY period of life has amusements which are natural and proper to it. You may indulge... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 522 Seiten
...Milton comes into your memory, you might repeat, for the quotation is not too trite for a foreigner. " Grace is in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love." But then it is grace which says nothing, a heaven only for a husband, the dignity more of a matron... | |
| Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 Seiten
...my soul transported, when she broke in upon my view, in all the bloom of ripened beauty ! Grace, was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love ! — You whose souls are susceptible of the most delicate impressions, whose tender bosoms have felt... | |
| John Collins McCabe - 1835 - 204 Seiten
...to sea ! Shout with joy to those banners, "Lo! Poland is free !" TO ESTELLE OF BALTIMORE. Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. — .Wilton. Her footsteps were light as the bounding deer, Her eye was the beam of the young gazelle;... | |
| the christians - 1836 - 426 Seiten
...amiable ; on she came, Led by her heavenly Maker, though unseen, And guided by his voice — Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love." Celestial intelligence influencing the mind of Adam, led him to appreciate this ineffable boon of his... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 514 Seiten
...unseen, And guided by his voice ; nor uninform'd Of nuptial sanctity, and marriage rites : Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. I, overjoy'd, could not forbear aloud : — This turn hath made amends ; thou hast fulfill'd Thy words,... | |
| Samuel Joseph Smith - 1836 - 240 Seiten
...respectable farmer who had a daughter of a suitable age ; and though I cannot say that " Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love," yet her correct and orderly deportment seemed to promise that she would make an excellent wife : I... | |
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