 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 sider
...glimpses of a breast of snow : What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had train'd ber pace " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - 1851 - 420 sider
...pavement, and in all the buoyancy of youth and health she bounded like a young fawn over the green sod. " E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread," exclaimed Mr. Russell, as he tried to follow her eccentric movements. " Indeed it does seem to me as... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 sider
...Lake, would be quite absurd, were the flower there mentioned, intended to be the English Hare-bell. A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread. — When applied... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 sider
...which, short and light, Had dyed her glowing hue so bright, Served, too, in hastier swell, to show Short glimpses of a breast of snow. What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had train'd her pace ; A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 sider
...mood had train'd her pace, — A foot more light, a step more trne, Ne'er from the heath flower dash'd the dew ; , E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What thongh npon her speech there hnng The accents of the monntain tongne, — Those silver sonnds, so soft,... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1853 - 506 sider
...and Scotland, in which countries this plant abounds ; thus Scott says of his " Lady of the Lake," * "A foot more light, a step more true. Ne'er from the heath-flower brushed the dew." In the Highlands of Scotland the poor make use of the heath to thatch the roofs of... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1854 - 282 sider
...As falcon to the lure, away she flies ; The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light. — Ibid. A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the...harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread. SCOTT. — Lady of the Lake. Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness : Love doth... | |
 | Elise Osborne - 1854 - 370 sider
...! what upon earth does any one want with such disagreeables ? I'll not read that. Here's Scott : " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the...dashed the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised his head Elastic from her fairy tread." " Who does that describe ?" asked Harry. "Me, I suppose you... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 sider
...toil, which, short and light, Had dyed her glowing hue so bright, Served too in hastier swell to show Short glimpses of a breast of snow : What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had train'd her pace? — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1855 - 284 sider
...The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light. — Ibid. A foot more light, a step more true, Ke'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the slight...harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread. SCOTT. — Lady of the Late. Is she kind as she is fair? For beauty lives with kindness : Love doth... | |
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E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear. 
