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" 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 116
by Anne Manning - 1860 - 286 pages
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Prose Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 416 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...
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Harvard Memorial Biographies ...

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1866 - 521 pages
...Roydon's Astrophill as describing Goodwin's face exactly : — " A sweet, attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, — The lineaments of Gospel books." As soon as he was old enough he entered the High School and commenced his preparatory course for college....
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Harvard memorial biographies [ed. by T.W. Higginson]. [With ..., Volume 2

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1867 - 508 pages
...Roydon's Astrophill as describing Goodwin's face exactly : — " A sweet, attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, ->The lineaments of Gospel books." VOL. II. 14 As soon as he was old enough he entered the High School and commenced his preparatory course...
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The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pages
...speak, and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while. A tweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel boolcs — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. Above all others...
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England's Antiphon

George MacDonald - 1868 - 356 pages
...vain eulogy. Describing his personal appearance, he says : 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 ever eye did see that face, Was ever ear did hear that tongue, Was ever mind...
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Diana's crescent, by the author of 'Mary Powell'.

Anne Manning - 1868 - 216 pages
...cannot give, and one of his admiring friends describes it as " 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." It was no mean thing to have a countenance that reminded one of this original...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 42

Henry Allon - 1865 - 534 pages
...while he lived, his friends, neither mean nor few, found ' A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of gospel books.' In him, after his death, they mourned ' A spotless friend, a matchless man, whose virtue ever shined,...
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The life of the rev. William Marsh, by his daughter, the author of ...

Catherine Marsh - 1868 - 414 pages
...greeting and the blessing so dearly prized ; and look upon ' The sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face The lineaments of gospel books.' As he was not allowed to venture out of doors in the cold weather, he wished to partake of the sacrament...
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The Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

Edwin Percy Whipple - 1869 - 382 pages
...but rarely in connection with the person it celebrates. " A sweet, attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel Books." In passing from Sidney to Ealeigh, we pass to a less beautiful and engaging, but far more potent and...
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1869 - 852 pages
...You were in Paradise the while. A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by loola ; 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...
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