 | L. Contanseau - 1860 - 232 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 ;... | |
 | 1851 - 574 sider
...lifeless clod. THEiHARE-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 ! VRICHZY OF RADZIVIL. A TALE OF THE TIME OF CATHERINE THE SECOND OF RUSSIA. Br THE AUTHOR OF " KARL... | |
 | Alexander Irvine - 1861 - 412 sider
...Scott's description of Ellen's grace and sprightliness, as narrated in the following lines : — " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the...Harebell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread." — Canto i. 18. ' Phytologist,' vol. iv. p. 224. Sir, — Your correspondent, AG More, who dates Bembridge,... | |
 | 1861 - 144 sider
...lovelier face J What though the sun, with ardent frown, Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown — What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace — A foot more light, a stop more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the slight harebell raised its head,... | |
 | Edward Bradley - 1861 - 444 sider
...airy tread," if Ellen Anyone had planted her foot upon it, notwithstanding the poetical fact that " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew." The darker flower that, from its reflex leaves, gave to Homer and Milton alike the... | |
 | Allet (pseud.) - 1862 - 390 sider
...ne'er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, Of finer form, or lovelier face ! * * * * 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 : " she did... | |
 | Agnes C. Jordan - 1862 - 130 sider
...Dost thou dream of coming hours — Future hours all fraught with woe In thy pilgrimage below ? * " E'en the slight harebell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread." — Scott. No ! thou little gipsy queen, Thine's a life of joy, I ween. Now thou'rt swinging on tie... | |
 | Belfast Naturalists' Field Club - 1863 - 570 sider
...its native rocks and among the heath. This is the Harebell so much loved and sung by poets : — " E'en the slight harebell raised its head. Elastic from her airy tread." Its conspicuous, yet modest, flowers were in all the freshness of their early bloom, and justified... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 sider
...slightly tinged her cheek with brown — 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 ; E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though... | |
 | Jane Loudon - 1865 - 404 sider
...upright, graceful, slender stalks. Scott alludes to the plant as being slender and elastic : — " A. foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the...the dew ; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head Elasiic from her airy tread." Lady of ihe Lake, Canto I. And again in Canto II . — " ' For me/ —... | |
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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. 
