| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 480 pages
...the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest,...amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint : She secm'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven : — Porphyro grew faint : She knelt,... | |
| William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...knelt fur Heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her si] ver Day. This was a high festival in England formerly....thorn, there grew in the abbey churchyard of Glastonbu : — • »•*•* • Her vespers done Of all its wreathed pearls fcer hair she frees ; Unclasps... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1825 - 482 pages
...the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon ; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together...silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, hke a saint : She sccrn'da splendid angel, newly drcst, Save wings, for heaven : — Porphyro grew... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1902 - 558 pages
...on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, u 290 THE SPIRIT OF THE AGfc. And on her hair a glory, like a saint : She seem'da...splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven : — Porphyro grew faint : She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. " Anon his heart... | |
| William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace des of angels ; with the breaking of the clouds, discovering...palace of the sun, in double and treble prospects, to : — • • Her vespers done Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps her warmedjewels... | |
| Edward Holmes - Music - 1828 - 308 pages
...exquisitely pictured the effect in the girl who has knelt " to ask Heaven's grace and boon," " Rose bloom fell on her hands together prest, And on her silver...soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory like a saint." A Gothic cathedral is to the little children in a city like a venerable kind of elderly acquaintance;... | |
| Leigh Hunt - Authors - 1828 - 512 pages
...breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon ; Rose bloom fell on her hands, together press'd, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her...glory, like a saint : She seem'da splendid angel, newly dress'd, Save wings, for heaven." The whole volume is worthy of this passage. Mr. Keats is no half-painter,... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon , Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together jircst, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her...splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for Heaven : — — ^— — — — — ^— Her vespers done Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees... | |
| Books - 1832 - 652 pages
...youthful fair, kneeling to ask heaven's grace, so beautifully expressed by the poet, — Rose bloom fell on her hands together prest, And on her silver...soft amethyst And on her hair a glory like a saint. ' How the heavenly tones in solemn grandeur roll along ! It is only upon the continent that we can... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1832 - 648 pages
...youthful fair, kneeling to ask heaven's grace, so beautifully expressed by the poet, — Rose bloom fell on her hands together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst Ала on her hair a glory like a saint. " How the heavenly tones in solemn grandeur roll along ! It... | |
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