 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - Страниц: 386
...tender shoots ; Their port was more than human as they stood. I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the elements. That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' tlf plighted clouds." The whole description is so very beautiful, we could not forbear... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - Страниц: 216
...he says : " Their port was more than human, as they stood: I took it for a faery vision • Of some gay creatures of the elements, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i' the plighted clouds. I was awestruck, And as I past I worshipt; if those you seek, It were... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1841 - Страниц: 332
...reminiscence. To the Cecil Danby of twenty-anda-half, she was irresistible—an epitome of all that was pleasant (but wrong) in woman. I was never sure of...series of brilliant repartees and biting truths, that 102 CECIL, would have made the fortune of Conversation S., or a witty parody like Canning's Pocket-book,... | |
 | 1844 - Страниц: 742
...mercifully been permitted most men ; but these are immortal, belonging to quite another sphere than ours, " creatures of the elements, that in the colours of the rainbow live, and play in the plighted clouds." Taimahill's again was a weak tremulous nature. He was wretched by... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1845 - Страниц: 422
...was never sure of her. Compared with her, a weathercock was a fixture and a camcleon permanent. — A bevy of those gay creatures of the elements That in the colours of the rainbow live ; a swarm of humming-birds, — a French brocade, — a Neapolitan brigand, — an edition of Horace Walpole, —... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1846 - Страниц: 838
...From that moment, Tom dreamed only of a livery. From that moment, footmen became in his imagination, gay creatures of the elements. That in the colours of the rainbow live; happy individuals in nankeen tights and shirts of fine Irish ; whose chief occupation in the household... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1846 - Страниц: 362
...From that moment, Tom dreamed only of a livery. From that moment, footmen became in his imagination, Gay creatures of the elements, That in the colours of the rainbow live ; happy individuals in nankeen tights and shirts of fine Irish ; whose chief occupation in the household... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1858 - Страниц: 628
...on the 6ae flowers of the conservatory. In her plain black dress she felt almost out of place among those "gay creatures of the elements that in the colours of the rainbow lived." Yet the approving smiles of her father and cousin toght to have satisfied her that she was... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1858 - Страниц: 334
...on the fine flowers of the conservatory. In her plain black dress she felt almost out of place among those " gay creatures of the elements that in the colours of the rainbow lived." V Yet the approving smiles of her father and cousin ought to have satisfied her that she was... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - Страниц: 340
...to pictures — the earth to a dream swimming before the half-sleeping eye, and men and women to " Gay creatures of the elements, That in the colours of the rainbow live And play i' th' plighted clouds." Wordsworth alludes to this when he speaks, in his poem on the Cuckoo,... | |
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French brocade— a Neapolitan brigand — an edition of Horace Walpole, — do not combine a greater variety of hues and fantasticalities. After uttering a series of brilliant repartees and biting truths, that... 
