A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death. The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright... Memoirs of the life, character, and labours of the rev. John Smith, late of ... - Page 230by Richard Treffry - 1833 - 356 pagesFull view - About this book
| Maria Jane McIntosh - 1849 - 420 pages
...you seem to have started up into ' A perfect woman nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit, still and bright, With something of an angel light.' " " You have learned to natter, I see." " On my honor, Mary, I speak the truth when I say that, in... | |
| Christian life - 1850 - 396 pages
...perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort, to command. With household motions light and free, And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel light." Every thing a woman can silently do, within the sacred walls of her own house, to beautify and bless... | |
| American literature - 1850 - 458 pages
...AGNES MERVIN. BY A NEW CONTRIBUTOR. "A perfect Woman, nobly plannei, To warn, to comfort and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright, With something of an angel light." " WHAT a beautiful pair ! what a noble looking bridegroom ! and, as for the bride, I never saw so lovely... | |
| Literature - 1850 - 144 pages
...Endurance, foresight, strength and skill ; A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still and bright With something of an angel light. • WORDSWORTH. 2Lobe Weber COME — let us go to the land Where the violets grow ! Let's go thither,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill, A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light TO A HIGHLAND GIRL. Sweet Highland girl! a very shower Of beauty is thy earthly dower! Twice seven... | |
| English literature - 1850 - 140 pages
...foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. Op DELIGHT. ie ; breath, ieath ; ate will, ;th, and skill ; nn'd, tmmand ; ight light. ANGEL FACES.... | |
| James Handasyd Perkins - Ohio - 1851 - 542 pages
...foresight, strength, and skill : A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warm, to comfort, and command; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light.' " In a word, it seems to us that the artist in this, his first work, has succeeded most admirably in... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...Endurance, foresight, strength and skill, A perfect woman nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a spirit still and bright, With something of an angel light. L noble poem the other day in the " Modern Painters," cited for the landscape : " Huge trunks, and... | |
| Fortune-telling - 1851 - 84 pages
...etill be tenanted. CF Hoffman, 2. A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command, And yet a spirit still, and bright, With something of an Angel light. Wordsworth. 3. Devoted, anxious, generous, void of guile, With her whole heart's welcome in her smile.... | |
| Jesse Clement - United States - 1851 - 496 pages
...away from home. ELIZABETH ESTAUGH. A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort and command ; And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light. WOKDSWOETH. Elizabeth Haddon was the oldest daughter of John Haddon, a well educated and wealthy, yet... | |
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