| Hester Chapone - 1821 - 358 pages
...without meanness, and simple elegance without affectation. Milton had my idea, when he says of Kvo— Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. AMUSEMENTS. EVERY period of life has amusements which are natural and proper to it. You may indulge... | |
| English literature - 1834 - 580 pages
...she crossed the patio to meet us, — " Milton, in a vision, must have seen her when he wrote, — " Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture, dignity and love !" I think it is a proverb, that no woman talks or walks like a Spaniard. Certainly I never knew any... | |
| Heron - 1821 - 944 pages
..."And " And then, to sum up all, she is the most amiable, the most captivating of her sex. ' Grace is in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love." As he spoke, flourishing about the room like a tragedy hero, he dashed down a china vase, and broke... | |
| Isaac Wilcockson - Guilds - 1822 - 140 pages
...did they look more bewitching than on this occasion,) did not, it seems, resemble the Eve of Milton, of whom it is said, Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love! sons walked in the procession dressed-in a similar manner.—All of them had white and red ribhauds... | |
| Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Maker, though unseen, And guided by his voice; nor uninform'd Of nuptial sanctity, and marriage rites. Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. I, overjoy'd, could not forbear aloud: Of all thy gifts! nor etiviest. I now see Bone of my bone, flesh... | |
| 1822 - 614 pages
...Syren, sn ;e discarded chere amie of an illustrious personage — e Was really an earthly divinity — " Grace was in all her steps, " Heaven in her eye, " In every feature wantonness and love." She was the ignis fatuus that seduced young men to Jenkins's Elysium,... | |
| Mason Locke Weems - Marriage - 1823 - 68 pages
...invites him to the happy union by the sweet whispers, of love. He sees the charming maid — " Grace in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and charm. He feels a joy unfelt before." Eagerly inquiring after the lovely tranger, every tongue celebrates... | |
| Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...indicating thereby the pronunciation of the times, the resemblance would be still more apparent. t Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. Milton. thee to mine hostel : and yet many warnings thou madest ere thou list fully to graunt thine... | |
| Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 316 pages
...how was my soul transported, when she broke in upon my view, in all the bloom of ripened beauty ! ' Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love!' You whose souls are susceptible of the most delicate impressions, whose tender bosoms have felt the... | |
| 1824 - 596 pages
...Mary Bradford. I believe that Heaven ne'er created a fairer creature. Well might it be said of her: Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture, dignity and love. I had never seen such a woman. My sensation on beholding her was ineffable ; love would be too cold... | |
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