 | American literature - 1846 - 308 pages
...May-time's brightest, liveliest dawn ; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. I saw her upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman...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... | |
 | 1846 - 438 pages
...From May-time and the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman...! Her household motions light and free, And steps ofy virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature... | |
 | Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pages
...mother's spirit would not revisit our desolate dwelling. I cannot return to it alone." CHAPTER VII. I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too! ***** A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple... | |
 | Theology - 1848 - 502 pages
...Hebrew Ideas of God. 27 To no one better could Wordsworth's fine lines be applied than to her : — " I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too...in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command, And yet a spirit too, and bright... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - English fiction - 1848 - 478 pages
...himself, and then stopping before Lady Cecilia, repeated to her, in a very low voice, the following: — " I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman...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,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1848 - 492 pages
...its first impulses." To no one better could Wordsworth's fine lines be applied than to her : — " I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too...in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A, perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command, And yet a spirit too, and bright... | |
 | Lucy Hooper - 1848 - 414 pages
...practical example of her life, how does it realize to us the exquisite picture of Wordsworth ; We see her upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and freĢ, And step of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet;... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - Country life - 1849 - 256 pages
...is able to cheer and bless us in all weathers of life. He has written nothing tenderer or truer — I saw her, upon nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman...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,... | |
 | Literature - 1850 - 144 pages
...the cheerful dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her on a nearer view, A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household...in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright nor good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple... | |
 | University magazine - 1850 - 792 pages
...admiration, yet who would not rather have his daughter or sister praised in such lines as the following, than in any that Burns, Moore, or Byron ever wrote ? "...Her household motions light and free, And steps of virg'm liberty ; A countenance iu which did meet Sweet records ; promises as nweel ; A creature not... | |
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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. 
