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...mingled with surprise that so lovely and graceful a creature should be born in so humble a situation. " Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight's...dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-layI saw her, upon nearer view, A Spirit, yet a Woman too ! Her household motions light and free,...

...who might well have been mistaken for the Naiad of the place, so lonely and so lovely did she seem. " She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...ornament. Her eyes as stars of twilight fair ; Like twilights, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May time and the cheerful...

...not, however, disenchant my fancy of the earlier picture — of a gracious youthful presence, with eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilight's, too,...about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn. Heaven forbid that I should ever lose the habit I have, when looking into the face of aged womanhood,...

...Caesarini soon forgot its existence. CHAPTER V. " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A. lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament." WORDSWORTH. MALTRAVERS did not see Lady Florence again for some -weeks ; meanwhile Lumley Ferrers made...

...bird ! the earth we pace Again appears to be An unsubstantial, faery place, That is fit home for thee. She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sigl.t, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like...

...enchantrtu of his life. To Eugene she was indeed " A phantom of delight, When first she came upon his sight — A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Of twilight, too. her glossy hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the purest...

...me see The brightest star of ages yet to be, And I will mate and match him blissfully." Wordsworth, She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A dancing Shape, an Image gay — To haunt, to startle, and way-lay. I saw her, upon nearer view, A Spirit,...

...Caesarini soon forgot its existence. CHAPTER V. " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament." WORDSWORTH. MALTRAVEBS did not see Lady Florence again for some weeks ; meanwhile Lumley Ferrers made...