| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1871 - 820 pages
...beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of the queen of love." Or in his Helen : "O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars." We find it in the jewels of Barabas : " Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz,... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 556 pages
...again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. . . . 0 thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ! ' 1 ' Ah, my God, I would weep ! but the devil draws in my tears. Gush forth blood, instead of tears!... | |
| Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. . . . O thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ! ' * ' Ah, my God, I would weep ! but the devil draws in my tears. Gush forth blood, instead of tears... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Conduct of life - 1871 - 128 pages
...Rosetta, as she stood before her enraptured lover in all the lustre of youthful loveliness. " Oh, she was fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ! " as some mortal poet has sung. I am sure your Highness would have deemed her worthy of a high place... | |
| 1871 - 692 pages
...now Madame la Marquise de Blank. Never was there a face more worthy than hers of being lauded as " fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars," for there was dusk in the complexion as well as splendor in the eyes. Almost every woman of Rio, in... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 866 pages
...Flemming to gaze at her beautiful face, often repeating to himself those lines in Marlow's Faust — " O, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the...would have betrayed himself to the maternal eye of Mrs Ashburlon, had she not been wholly absorbed in the follies of a fashionable novel. Ere long, the fair... | |
| New Shakspere Society (London, England) - 1875 - 558 pages
...colours on my plumed crest : Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ; Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter, When he appeared to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies! Ibid. O, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. [bid. 1 Quoted by Shakespeare, As You Lihe It, Act iii. Sc. 5. 1 6 Marlowe. — Hooher. [Faustus continued.... | |
| 1874 - 586 pages
...piece of imagery, such as — " The ebon gates of ever-burning hell," from Faitstus ; or this : " 0 thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars." or this from the Jew of Malta : — " Like the sad presaging raven that tolls The sick man's passport... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1874 - 606 pages
...piece of imagery, such as — " The ebon gates of ever-burning hell," from Fauslus ; or this : " 0 thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars." or this from the Jew of Malta : — " Like the sad presaging raven that tolls The sick man's passport... | |
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