| Englishmen - 1836 - 258 páginas
...could call up its sunshine, or draw down its showers ; — ' Whose humour, as gay as the fire-fly's light, Play'd round every subject, and shone as it...in the combat as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. '':!'. -'-£', Whose eloquence, brightening whatever it tried, i-, ';... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1838 - 412 páginas
...And could call up its sunshine, or bring down its showers ! '' Whose humour, as gay as the fire-fly's light, Play'd round every subject, and shone as it...in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade ; — " Whose eloquence — bright'ning whatever it tried, Whether reason... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1841 - 440 páginas
...take any sustenance, and declined, for him, by his friends. " Whose humour, as gay as the fire-fly's light, " Play'd round every subject, and shone as...the combat, as gentle as bright, " Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade ; — " Whose eloquence — bright'ning whatever it tried, " Whether... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1841 - 438 páginas
...take any sustenance, and declined, for him, by his friends. " Whose humour, as gay as the fire-fly's light, " Play'd round every subject, and shone as...the combat, as gentle as bright, " Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade;— " Whose eloquence — bright'ning whatever it tried, " Whether reason... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1841 - 454 páginas
...take any sustenance, and declined, for him, by his friends. " Whose humour, as gay as the fire-fly's light, " Play'd round every subject, and shone as...the combat, as gentle as bright, " Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade ; — " Whose eloquence — bright'ning whatever it tried, " Whether... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1844 - 800 páginas
...up its sunshine, or bring dow n its show'rs ; — 400 401 " Whose humour, as gay as the fire-fly's light, " Play'd round every subject, and shone as...play'd;— " Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, " Ne'ercarriedaheart-stainaway onits blade; — " Whose eloquence — bright'ning w hatever it tried,... | |
| 1905 - 1004 páginas
...extended— Whose humor, as gay as the fire-fly's light, Played round every subject and shone as It played. Whose wit In the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. There Is no difficulty in comprehending why a social function which... | |
| 1850 - 640 páginas
...Whose humor, as gay as the fire-fly's light, Played round every suliject, and shone as it played ; Whose wit, in the combat as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. There is the uncouth mirth, that winds, stutters, wriggles and screams,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 páginas
..." Whose humor, as gay as the fire-fly's light, Played round every subject, and shone as it played; Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade." There is the uncouth mirth, that winds, stutters, Avriggles and screams,... | |
| Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1850 - 324 páginas
...Whose humour, as bright as the fire-fly's light, Shone round every object, and shone as it played ; Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade' — Sheridan. He was his brilliant yet tender friend. The painter was... | |
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