| 1855 - 594 pages
...his kind and liberal heart, his spotless faith and honor, his wit of clear and high conceit, and upon "A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in his face," which made his conversation, as they fondly declare, a very pleasure of Paradise ! We have... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 pages
...eyne. To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in paradise the while. t: A sweet attractive hind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face. The lineament* of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot be, Whose thoughts are legible in the... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...his lovely cheerful eyhe. To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in paradise the while. '• A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance...face , The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. *' Above all others this is he, Which... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1856 - 386 pages
...lovely cheerful eyne. To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while. A tweet attractive kind of grace : A full assurance given...face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. Above all others this is he, Which erst... | |
| Mrs. Cuthbert Orlebar - 1856 - 200 pages
...lines, and experience had not diminished my belief in their being her fittest portrait : — •, " A sweet, attractive kind of grace, A full assurance...comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books : Methinks that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible iu the eye !" "From the time she... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 pages
...him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while. JL sweet attractive kind of grace : Ji full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort...face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. Above all others this is he, Which erst... | |
| Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 pages
...his lovely cheerful eyne. To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in paradise the while. *: A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A. full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a fate, The lineaments of Gospel books — 1 trow that count'nance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible... | |
| 1868 - 796 pages
...The stanza has been often quoted, but rarely in connection with the person it characterizes : — " A sweet, attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Conlinual comfort in a face, Tilt; lineaments of Gospel Docks." In passing from Sidney to Raleigh,... | |
| Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...unworthy of note is to him, in the words of Spenser, — "A sveet, attractive kind of grace ; A foil assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face ; The lineaments of gospel books." 2 "Handsome is that handsome does; hold up your heads, girls !" was the language of Primrose in the... | |
| Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1859 - 344 pages
...and unhappiness that hung about me; for anything false, anything sad, could not come near Lilias— " I trow that countenance cannot lie Whose thoughts are legible in the eie," I said to myself joyously as I went on. I repented me of my suspicions of Charlie. Lucy must... | |
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