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" Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. "
Letters from London, Written During the Years 1802 & 1803 - Page 277
by William Austin - 1804 - 312 pages
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Leonora, Volume 1

Maria Edgeworth - Letters - 1806 - 300 pages
...your memory, you might repeat— for the quotation is not too trite for a foreigner — " Grace is in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and lore." But then it is grace which says nothing, a heaven only for a husband, the dignity more of a...
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Essay on the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian: In which the Objections of ...

Patrick Graham - Ogham stones - 1807 - 512 pages
...Ossian's " Loveliness was around her " as light; her steps were the music of songs," and Milton's " Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, " In every gesture dignity and love/' except the single term " steps?" — let any eye or ear judge concerning farther resemblance. Did we...
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Letters on the Improvement of the Mind Addressed to a Lady and a Father's ...

Mrs. Chapone (Hester), John Gregory - Ethics - 1808 - 210 pages
...without meauness, and simple elegance without affectatiou. —Milton had my idea, when he says of Eve, Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. AMUSEMENTS. . Tp VERY period of life has amusements which are ,''-'natural and proper to it. You may...
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Dissertations Moral and Critical, Volume 3

James Beattie - 1809 - 262 pages
...and darkness; the clangour of his weapons, to the scream of the owl; the terrour he struck into the Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. Of this criticism I would observe, that the censure here passed on the poetry of the north, as compared...
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The baptist Magazine

1864 - 868 pages
...Paradise Lost," b. iv. And again, for the great poet is never tired of painting this primitive beauty— " Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love." II"'1, b. viii. Of all the beauties of the human form, those assembled on the countenance were no doubt...
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The Memoirs of the Life, and Writings of Percival Stockdale ..., Volume 2

Percival Stockdale - Authors - 1809 - 498 pages
...was Ev E ; and we might have applied to her the description of MILTON'S EVE, without exaggeration, Grace was in all her steps ; heaven in her eye ; In every gesture, dignity, and love. WILKES was not only an elegans formarum spectator, but likewise an elegant observer of the talents,...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 4

John Walker - Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - 1811 - 646 pages
...of a frame most delicate, perhaps few surpassed her ia personal charms ; and of her it may justly be said, " Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye ; " In all her gestures dignity and love 1" She is said to have contracted a regard for a gentleman who visited...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 4

1811 - 644 pages
...of a frame most delicate, perhaps few surpassed her in personal charms ; and of her it may justly be said, *' Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye ; " In all her gestures dignity and love !" She is said to have contracted a regard for a gentleman who visited...
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The young woman's companion; or, Female instructor [by J.A. Stewart].

J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...meanness, and simple elegance without affectation. Milton had the same idea when he says of Eve .« •Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. AN ACCOUNT OF THE MAID OF ORLEANS. JOAN D'ARC, called the Maid of Orleans, was born in 1407, in the...
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Leonora, Volume 1

Maria Edgeworth - 1815 - 524 pages
...your memory, you might repeat — for the quotation is not too trite for a foreigner — " Grace is in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love." But theniit is grace which says nothing, •a heaven only for a husband, the dignity more of a matron...
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