 | John Walker - 1811 - 646 sider
...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 her at the convent, and to have... | |
 | 1811 - 644 sider
...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 her at the convent, and to have... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1820 - 884 sider
...or riding in a cinder-cart, but it could not strictly be said of any one of these ladies, " Grace is in all her steps, Heaven in her eye ; in all her gestures dignity and love." Though he had observed, at the beginning of his speech, that he was an advocate for poor beings who... | |
 | 1832 - 358 sider
...paragon of loveliness, breaking on the delighted eye of man, and of whom it was truly said, that, " Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In all her actions dignity and love." From this dtsire, et besoin de plaisir et d'aimer, does woman study the... | |
 | 1824 - 348 sider
...features, but by the lustre of her mind which shone in them and gave them their power of charming. 36. Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In all her gestures, dignity and love ; ' Without this irradiating power, the- proudest fair-one ought to know, whether her glass may tell... | |
 | 1826 - 696 sider
...beauty, would not seize half so forcibly upon the mind as this short recapitulation of them all : " Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In all her gestures dignity and love ! " Or as those marvelling, breathless, exclamations which lachimo utters at the sight of Imogen asleep... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 676 sider
...beauty, would not seize half so forcibly upon the mind as this short recapitulation of them all : " Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In all her gestures dignity and love ! " Or as those marvelling, breathless, exclamations which lachimo utters at the sight of Imogen asleep... | |
 | 1833 - 388 sider
...the Mother •of our race he powerfully finishes his climax of her fascinations, by observing— -, " Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In all her gestures dignity and love !" But, I am becoming prolix ; and unnecessarily so : for were I to light another taper, and sit up... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 sider
...features, but by the lustre of her mind which shone in them, and gave them their power of charming : " Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye ! In all her gestures dignity and love !" Without this irradiating power, the proudest fair one ought to know, whatever her glass may tell... | |
 | 1844 - 546 sider
...to man." The following words are thought to be strikingly descriptive of this mother in Israel:— " Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In all her gestures dignity and love." This Memoir may be appropriately concluded by the following verses, on " The Death of a Christian "... | |
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Venus, by her shape or features, but by the lustre of her mind which shone in them, and gave them their power of charming : " Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye ! In all her gestures dignity and love... 
