| Several Hands - 1760 - 588 sider
...heaven, could beftow To make her amiable, on Ihe came, Led by her heaven-taught votary, tho* unfeen, Grace was in all her fteps, heaven in her eye, In every gefture dignity and love. And guided by his voice * Socrates,' continues Mr. Moor, c could not well be more c happy in the choice... | |
| John Milton - 1767 - 448 sider
...though unfeen, 485 And guided by his voice, nor uninform'd Of nuptial fanctity and marriage- rites : Grace was in all her fteps, heaven in her eye, In every gefture dignity and love. I overjoy'd could not forbear aloud. 490 This turn hath made amends , thou haft fulfill'd Thy words,... | |
| William Combe - 1781 - 54 sider
...; Lords that can prate, As amply, and unneceflarily, As this Gonzala. Ibid. DUTCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. Grace was in all her fteps, heaven in her eye, In every gefture dignity and love. MILTON.. LORD G G— R DN. His fpeech was like a tangled chain ; nothing impair'd, but all diforder'd.... | |
| James Beattie - 1783 - 862 sider
...defcribes the nuda tellezza of Eve by general terms and abllruti ideas, that prefent no image to the mind : Grace was in all her fteps, heaven in her eye, In every gefture dignity and love. Of this criticifm I would obferve, that the cenfure here paffed on the poetry of the north, as compared... | |
| John Almon - 1784 - 586 sider
...been united in any female who was an aflrefs by profeffion : One might juftly fay with Milton — " Grace was in all her fteps, Heaven in her " eye ; in every gefture, dignity and fpirit l" Mifs Harvey, in Lady Wronghcad, was' as natural as could be expefted from a maiden Lady,... | |
| Malcolm Laing - 1800 - 500 sider
...round it lil-.e ftreaming clouds. Thou wert the dweller M of fouls, white»handed Strinadona." i. 24. " Grace was in all her fteps, heaven in her eye, " In every gefture dignity and love." « Illius ex oculis, quum vult exurere Divos, " Accendit geminas lampadas acer amor. " Illam quidquid... | |
| John Moore - 1800 - 478 sider
...But this, you will tell me, is too vague ; and were I, in the fublime language of Milton, to fay— " Grace was in all her fteps, heaven in her eye, In every gefture dignity and love" ftill it would give no precife idea of the lady's face and perfon. I will therefore try to defcribe... | |
| Mrs. West (Jane) - 1806 - 490 sider
...refemblance can the impenitent wanton bear to his picture of our general mother in her flate of innocence ? " Grace was in all her fteps, heaven in her eye, " In every gefture dignity and love." My limited knowledge of high life makes me fufpect, that the blind infatuation of the worfhipper often... | |
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