 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1849 - 630 pages
...from the heath-flower dasbed the delr, ' B'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, .Elastic front her airy tread ; What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the Gipsy tongue 1! ' u Those silver sounds, so soft, so di'ar, . . . ; Lorenzo .held 1 1 is breath to... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 pages
...of courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace, A foot more light, a slep more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew; E'en the slight...accents of the mountain tongue, Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear. A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid ; Her... | |
 | 1883 - 676 pages
...description of the Lady of the Lake been noticed ? — " A foot more light, a step more true, Xe'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew : E'en the slight...harebell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread." EDGAR MAcCuLLocn. Guernsey. [Instances of the employment of the samo form of illustration are common... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - 1850 - 476 pages
...Scotland, and has a very slender scape,. Thus Scott, in the " Lady of the Lake," says of Ellen Douglas, " E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head Elastic from Her airy tread." XThe flower which we call hare-bell, is the Campanula rotundifolia; this is very common' near waterfalls,... | |
 | 1850 - 592 pages
...present plant seems to have the best claim to it from general practice and poetical authority : — " E'en the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread." We must not, however, expect vernacular names to have any precision or certainty of application. The... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...mood had train'd ber pace " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ; E'en the slight harebell raised its head,...accents of the mountain tongue — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The list'ner held his breath to hear ! A chieftain's daughter seem'd the maid; Her... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...her pace ? A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew ; F. IMI the slight harebell raised its head, Elastic from...accents of the mountain tongue — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The list'ner held his breath to hear ! A chieftain's daughter seem'd the maid; Her... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - 1851 - 420 pages
...pavement, and in all the buoyancy of youth and health she bounded like a young fawn over the green sod. " E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread," exclaimed Mr. Russell, as he tried to follow her eccentric movements. " Indeed it does seem to me as... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pages
...courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace — A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew; E'en the slight...accents of the mountain tongue — Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear. A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid; Her... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...to be the English Hare-bell. A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew; E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread. — When applied to the Campanula these lines are very Intelligible." Sir JE Smith, in hia English... | |
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E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue, Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear. 
