 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Italy - 1841 - 456 pages
...rustic charmer with few ideal attractions. His vows were paid to A creature not too bright or-good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows,...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles. Her positive and tangible graces were enough for him. He sought not to exalt them, but only to exhibit... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 740 pages
...view, A spirit, yet a woman loo ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food. * • « » A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfor1.... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - Italy - 1841 - 564 pages
...with few ideal attractions. His vows were paid to A creature not too bright or-good For human nature.s daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles. Her positive and tangible graces were enough for him. He sought not to exalt them, but only to exhibit... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 360 pages
...view, A spirit yet a woman too! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. " And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A being breathing thoughtful breath,... | |
 | Lucy Hooper - 1842 - 306 pages
...view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free And step of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises...good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrow, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles. A perfect woman, nobly planned,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...Like a ladye from a far countree," and laid there by hands unseen on the counterpane of our crib, " A creature not too bright or good For human nature's...Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles !" What flesh so exquisitely beautiful as wax ! There is a delicacy in that material, to the inexperienced... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - Frontier and pioneer life - 1842 - 262 pages
...world is not half so respectable as Aunty Parshalls standing on her dish-kettle ! 183 CHAPTER XLIV. A creature not too bright or good For human nature's...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. WORDSWORTH. THE love of dress is said by some to be the ruling passion of the female soul. This is... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...Like a ladye from a far countree," and laid there by hands unseen on the counterpane of our crib, " A creature not too bright or good For human nature's...transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, hisses, tears, and smiles!" What flesh so exquisitely beautiful as wax! There is a delicacy in that... | |
 | 1842 - 452 pages
...the difficulty he found in creating " a spirit, yet a woman too," ' ' A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food. For transient...wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles." Most readers turn with indifference from llose Bradwardine, Julia Manwaring, and a dozen others. Diana... | |
 | Charles Henry Knox - 1842 - 968 pages
...SOFTNESS. I forget how they go on,—oh, yes, I remet her,'' continued she, looking fondly at Eliza :" ' A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food. For tiansient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, lore, kisses, tears, and smiles.' " Sir Thomas could... | |
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A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. 
