She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the... The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey - Side 237af Thomas De Quincey - 1889 - 454 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 sider
...knows, who gave that love sublime, And gave that strength of feeling, great Above all human estimate. 19 She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's,... | |
| 1821 - 410 sider
...Milton nor Shakspeare in their highest moments would have been ashamed t>f. My second proof: — " She was a Phantom of Delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a momeafa ornament ; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ; lake Twilight's,... | |
| 1823 - 468 sider
...emphasis, those delightful lines, which no man need ever make an apology for being able to recite, She was a Phantom of delight, When first she gleam'd upon my sight : A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's,... | |
| 1824 - 446 sider
...neither Milton nor Shakspeare in their highest moments would have been ashamed of. My second proof: — " She was a Phantom of Delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's,... | |
| Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Walter Blunt - 1824 - 446 sider
...neither Milton nor Shakspeare in their highest moments would have been ashamed of. My second proof: — " She was a Phantom of Delight When first she gleam'd upon my »ight ; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's or»ament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair ;... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1824 - 478 sider
...uttered in quite an imaginative vein of poetry, yet at the same time in the plain language of sincerity. She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. JVete Series, JVo. 18. 47 Her eyes as stars... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1837 - 230 sider
...saying, he locked up the letter in his desk, and Caesarini soon forgot its existence. CHAPTER V. " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A. lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament." WORDSWORTH. MALTRAVERS did not see Lady Florence... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1838 - 226 sider
...saying, he locked up the letter in his desk, and Caesarini soon forgot its existence. CHAPTER V. " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament." WORDSWORTH. MALTRAVEBS did not see Lady Florence... | |
| 1839 - 880 sider
...deep. We gladly quote the poem we refer to, though we have no right to give it the name of a song. " She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my tight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stare of twilight fair :... | |
| 1840 - 368 sider
...the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being. SHE WAS 1 PHANTOM. SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's,... | |
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