 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 362 ページ
...mood had train'd her 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,...speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue, — l Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The list'ner held his breath to hear ! XIX. A Chieftain's... | |
 | 1857 - 274 ページ
...her agile and fawn-like action when in health and spirits, so buoyant and graceful indeed, that — " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the...hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread." No one, we say, who had ever marked this, her peculiar manner of moving, but must have seen at once... | |
 | James White - 1858 - 316 ページ
...mood had train'd her 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,...so soft, so dear, The list'ner held his breath to hear ! The lady thus beautifully described takes the unknown visitor into the boat, and they arrive... | |
 | mrs. Frederick J Hall - 1858 - 352 ページ
...a visitor. CHAPTER XIII. A WILD ROSE FROM Y-FRO MORGANWG.* " What though upon her speech there hang The accents of the mountain tongue , Those silver...so soft, so dear, The list'ner held his breath to hear." Lady of the Lake. WHEN Constantine Pepperell entered the little parlour, he half expected Gwenllian... | |
 | A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - 336 ページ
...nymph, a naid, or a grace, Of finer form or lovelier face ! ***** And though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace — A foot more...true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew." SCOTT. Put her in my book ! Why, I could not catch the sylph to put her in. But could I do it, this... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 ページ
...too in hastier swell to show Short glimpses of a breast of snow: What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace-— A foot more...tongue—- Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear. A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid; Her satin snood, her silken... | |
 | L. Contanseau - 1860 - 232 ページ
...mood had train'd her 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,...so soft, so dear, The list'ner held his breath to hear ! A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid ; Her satin snood, her silken plaid, Her golden brooch,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1860 - 372 ページ
...What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace, A fool more light, a s'ep more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the...tread: What though upon her speech there hung The accen:s of the mountain tongue, Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listen r held his breath... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1871 - 588 ページ
...too in hastier swell to show Short glimpses of a breast of snow. What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace ? A foot more...Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew ; E'en the light harebell raised its head, Elastic, from her airy tread. What though upon her speech there hung... | |
 | Alexander Irvine - 1861 - 412 ページ
...Scott's description of Ellen's grace and sprightliness, as narrated in the following lines : — " A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the...Harebell raised its head Elastic from her airy tread." — Canto i. 18. ' Phytologist,' vol. iv. p. 224. Sir, — Your correspondent, AG More, who dates Bembridge,... | |
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The sportive toil, which, short and light, Had dyed her glowing hue so bright, Served too in hastier swell to show Short glimpses of a breast of snow : What though no rule of courtly grace To measured mood had trained her pace, — A foot more light,... 
