According to my notion, it is of that character which I believe is generally allowed to be most captivating to the other sex, — fair, feminine, nay, perhaps, even fragile — ' Fair as the forms that, wove in Fancy's loom, Float in light visions round... Clarence: Or, A Tale of Our Own Times - Seite 399von Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1852 - 515 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1830 - 600 Seiten
...her wavy locks behind her ears, and she looks like the beau-ideal of painting, or h-ke " The forma that wove in Fancy's loom, Float in light visions...her. " This fair round cheek was made for smiles. not tews, and," she added, glancing her eye at Mrs. Layton, and speaking with an energy not at all agreeable... | |
| 1834 - 896 Seiten
...to be most captivating to the other sex — fair, feminine, nay, perhaps even fragile — ' Fair as the forms that, wove in Fancy's loom, Float in light visions round the poet's head.'" This idea of her having been a delicate and blonde beauty seems to Mr Campbell " to be a pure caprice.... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1834 - 414 Seiten
...be most captivating to the other sex, — fair, feminine, nay, perhaps, even fragile — ' Fair as the forms that, wove in Fancy's loom, Float in light visions round the poet's head.' Such a combination only, respectable in energy and strength of mind, and captivating in feminine loveliness,... | |
| James Renwick, Oliver William Bourne Peabody - 1837 - 432 Seiten
...her domestic affections. We may apply to her the beautiful lines, in which she describes one of those "forms, that, wove in fancy's loom, Float in light visions round the poet's head." "She was a being formed to love and bless, With lavish nature's richest loveliness; Such I have often... | |
| Lucretia Maria Davidson - 1841 - 322 Seiten
...domestic affections. We may apply to her the beautiful lines, in which she describes one of those " forms, that, wove in Fancy's loom, Float in light visions round the poet's head." " She was a being formed to love and bless, With lavish nature's richest loveliness; Such I have often... | |
| Margaret Miller Davidson - 1843 - 716 Seiten
...domestic affections. We may apply to her the beautiful lines, in which she describes one of those ' forms, that, wove in Fancy's loom, Float in light visions round the poet's head." I 've seen them in the visions of the night, I 've faintly seen them when enough of light And dim distinctness... | |
| Lucretia Maria Davidson - 1843 - 346 Seiten
...her domestic affections. We may apply to her the beautiful lines, in which she describes one of those forms that, wove in Fancy's loom Float in light visions round the poet's head. She was a being formed to love and bless, With lavish nature's richest loveliness ; Such I have often... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1837 - 426 Seiten
...her domestic affections. We may apply to her the beautiful lines, in which she describes one of those "forms, that, wove in fancy's loom, Float in light visions round the poet's head." "She was a being formed to love and bless, With lavish nature's richest loveliness ; Such I have often... | |
| George Fletcher (essayist.) - 1847 - 418 Seiten
...to be most captivating to the other sex, — fair, I feminine, nay, perhaps even fragile — Fair as the forms that, wove in Fancy's loom, Float in light visions round the poet's head. Such a combination only, respectable in energy and strength of mind, and captivating in feminine loveliness,... | |
| Lucretia Maria Davidson - 1851 - 492 Seiten
...domestic affections. We may apply to her the beautiful lines, in which .,!.<; describes one of those " forms, that, wove in Fancy's loom, Float in light visions round the poet'a head." " She was a being formed to love and bless, With lavish nature's richest loveliness;... | |
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