 A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.  Town and Forest - Page 116by Anne Manning - 1860 - 286 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 pages
...in his countenance, — what a heaven in his smile ! " A sweet, attractive kind of grace, ' A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face,...trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. " Was never eye did see that face, i ' ' ... Was never ear did hear that tongue,... | |
 | 1865 - 820 pages
...them, a noble description of the face of a Christian man : " A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face,...trow that countenance cannot lie Whose thoughts are legible in the eye." The " Astrophel " poems are the earliest examples in our language of that mournful... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...speak, and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while. A sweet attractive kind of grace : A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a...face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. Above all others this is he, Which erst... | |
 | William Ware - 1850 - 424 pages
...in his countenance, — what a heaven in his smile ! • " A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face,...trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. " Was never eye did see that face, Was never ear did hear that tongue, Was never... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 pages
...Paradise the while. A nceet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Chntinval d, or, if ever, not associated with shapes of terror. Miss Lamb w count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. Above all others this is he, Which erst... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...speak, and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while. A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books; XX. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. I trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye."... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 390 pages
...cannot but call to mind those lines in Spenser's Elegie ', " A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel bookes : I trowe that countenance cannot lie Whose thoughts are legible in the eie. " Was never eie... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pages
...cannot but call to mind those lines in Spenser's Elegie', " A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel bookes : I trowe that countenance cannot He Whose thoughts are legible in the eie. " Was never eie... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1854 - 452 pages
...unworthy of note, is to him, in the words of Spenser, — " A sweet, attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face ; The lineaments of gospel books." •"Handsome is that handsome does — hold up your heads, girls ! " was the language of Primrose in... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...and sweetly smile, You were in paradise the while. *'• A. sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a...face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. " Above all others this is he, Which... | |
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