 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 280 sider
...Lake : — With that she rose like nimble roe. The tender grass scarce bending. — Hans Beer-pot, E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread. SCOTT— Lady of the Lake, And in her haste unfortunately spies The foul boar's conquest on her fair... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 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 measur'd mood had train'd her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 sider
...trace A nymph, a naiad, or a grace, Of finer form or lovelier face. * Also in Rob Koy, Vol. i. Ch. ii. A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. Canto i. St. 21. On his bold visage middle age Had slightly pressed its signet sage. Canto ii. St.... | |
 | 1857 - 274 sider
...her agile and fawn-like action when in health and spirits, so buoyant and graceful indeed, that — " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the...hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread." No one, we say, who had ever marked this, her peculiar manner of moving, but must have seen at once... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 372 sider
...marble Nymph or Grace, That boasts the Grecian chisel's trace."] 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... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 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 measur'd mood had train'd her pace, — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower... | |
 | M E. Hammond - 1858 - 352 sider
...sweet as the " dying fall " of ^olian harpstrings in his ears ; the light tread of her little feet " E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread." more graceful, in his eyes, than the measured step of the stately Geraldine. Cecilia was the chosen... | |
 | A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - 336 sider
...ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A nymph, a naid, or a grace, Of finer form or lovelier face ! ***** And though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had...true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew." SCOTT. Put her in my book ! Why, I could not catch the sylph to put her in. But could I do it, this... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1871 - 588 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...Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the light harebell raised its head, Elastic, from her airy tread. What though upon her speech there hung... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1860 - 372 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...courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace, A fool more light, a s'ep more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew; E'en the slight hare-bell... | |
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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. 
