 SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.  A Love Gift for ... - Sida 341841Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Wright - 1853 - 142 sidor
...therefore, about the comparison, I shall proceed to show in what the meanness of this piece consists. " She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise x And very few to love." An inelegance, almost exclusively confined to writers of the Lake school,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 sidor
...do not obtrude themselves on the gaze, but may be compared, (to use their author's own words,) with "A violet, by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky." Considering the exquisite melody of the poetry of COLERIDGE, it is impossible... | |
 | Elizabeth Daniel - 1853 - 302 sidor
...as an angel, and reminding me forcibly of Wordsworth's touching picture of the exquisite Lucy — " A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye, Fair as a star when only one Is shining in the sky." It was five o'clock when Mrs. Temple's elegant little carriage deposited the... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 sidor
...sharp. Violet is said to come from vi olendi, because it betrays itself by the 'strength of its smell. " A violet by a mossy stone, Half hidden from the eye, Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky." Wordsworth. Vir, a man ; as, virility, virtue ; virago, a woman who acts with... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 sidor
...— Paid for it with one wild apple — Yes, and half a one besides. Trantl<it«l by TALVI. LINES. She dwelt among the untrodden ways, Beside the springs...hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one la shining in the sky. She lived unknown — and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is... | |
 | 1854 - 456 sidor
...deep, And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spence, Wi' the Scots lords at his feet. LUCY.— Wordsworth. SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise, Aud very few to love, — A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when... | |
 | 1854 - 760 sidor
...first of these stanzas is thus massacred by Mr Butler— " She dwelt among the untrodden ways, besiJe the springs of Dove ; A maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love.*1 " Avia qua tácito perrepit flumine Dova, Exiguam teuuit nostrapuelladomum: Rarus earn,... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 sidor
...deep, And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spence? Wi' the Scots lords at his feet. LUCY. — Wordsworth, SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs...hidden from the eye ! Fair as a star, when only one She lived unknown, — and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, O,... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1855 - 416 sidor
...up, had I not come to a full stop at Tuscaloosa. But of this afterward. CHAPTER XIV. THE SILLY JANE. "She dwelt among the untrodden ways, Beside the springs...hidden from the eye, Fair as a star when only one Is shining in the sky." — WORDSWORTH. "And yet lack!" — SIUKSPERE. THE afternoon of the day following... | |
 | 1855 - 458 sidor
...deep, And there lies gude Sir Patrick Spence, Wi' the Scots lords at his feet. LUCY. — Wordsworth. SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs...to praise, And very few to love, — A violet by a nossy stone She lived unknown, — and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave,... | |
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