 As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely thro' all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, The shape and colour of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 4151861Full view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1859 - 1036 pages
...face. Divinely thro' all hindrance Jtnde the man Behsnd it, and s0 paints him that hie face. The ahupe and colour of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its hest And fullest ; so tho face hefore her lived, Bark — splendid ; speaking in the silence, full... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1859 - 256 pages
...And all night long his face before her lived, As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely through all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, 13 The shape and color of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest ; so... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1897 - 876 pages
...lines upon the ideal portrait-painter (as applicable to him i the pen as to him of the brush), who, Poring on a face, Divinely thro' all hindrance finds...life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest GEORGE PASTON. FRENCH PRISONERS AT PORTCHESTER. Is the early part of the present century, when... | |
 | 1860 - 634 pages
...thought That all was nature, all, perchance, for her. And all night long his face before her lived, As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely thro'...colour of a mind and life, Lives for his children, over at its best And fullest ; so the face before her lived, Dark-splendid, speaking in the silence,... | |
 | John Nichol - Criticism - 1860 - 256 pages
...it differently." — (P. 117.) A REVELATION. " As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely through all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints...life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest ; so the face before her lived, Dark — splendid, speaking in the silence, full Of noble things,... | |
 | 1860 - 632 pages
...thought That all was nature, all, perchance, for her. And all night long his face before her lived, As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely thro'...him that his face, The shape and colour of a mind a1ul life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest; so the face before her lived, Dark-splendid,... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1860 - 720 pages
...Lancelot, from which we take the following : As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely through all hind'rance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, The shape and color of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest; so the face before... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...thought That all was nature, all, perchance, for her. And all night long his face before her lived, As when a painter, poring on a face, Divinely thro'...life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest; so the face before her lived, Dark-splendid, speaking in the silence, full Of noble things,... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 364 pages
...That all was nature, all, perchance, for her. And all night long his face before her lived, As when s\ painter, poring on a face, Divinely thro' all hindrance...life, Lives for his children, ever at its best And fullest ; so the face before her lived, Dark-splendid, speaking in the silence, full Of noble things,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1861 - 602 pages
...benefit of his readers in much the same fashion ; " As when a painter poring on a face Divinely through all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, The shape and color of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at his beet And fullest" There are two peculiar... | |
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