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" Gods' pure sceptres, and the darts of Love, That with their touch might make a tiger meek, Or might great Atlas from his seat remove; So white, so soft, so delicate, so sleek, As she had worn a lily for a glove, As might beget life, where was never none... "
Six Months in the West Indies, in 1825 - Page 269
by Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1832 - 311 pages
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 1

Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 246 pages
...That is, a canopy of lawn. Stat* was the word more commonly used. His high throne which under state , So white, so soft, so delicate, so sleek, As she had worn a lilly for a glove; As might beget life where was never none, And put a spirit into the hardest stone....
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal

English literature - 1834 - 580 pages
...savage ; that the lovely hand and arm, which to gaze on alone was heaven, — • So soft, so fair, so delicate, so sleek, As she had worn a lily for her glove !" instead of arranging the folds of the graceful mantila, is now, if not powerless, familiar with...
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Six Months in the West Indies, in 1825

Henry Nelson Coleridge - Slavery - 1826 - 348 pages
...cousin star of beauty — twin divinities of Vallombrosa. O could I really see, could I really hear, really hold that white and soft and faithful hand...all one for that; I swear from Camoens, Antes sem vos meus olhos se entristecao, Que com qualquer cousa outra se contentem, Antes os esquecais que vos...
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The London Magazine, Volume 5

1826 - 598 pages
...divinities of Vallombrosa. О could I really see, could 1 really hear, really hold that white and soft aud faithful hand : So white, so soft, so delicate, so...all one for that ; I swear from Camoens, Antes sem vos meus olhos se entristeçaù, Que com qualquer cousa outra se contentera.. Antes os esquecais que...
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Six Months in the West Indies: In 1825

Henry Nelson Coleridge - Slavery - 1832 - 340 pages
...there really live a man who could triumph in such bitter woe ? But variura et mutabile semper Fcemina O, believe it not ! For the dear sake of our household...all one for that ; I swear from Camoens, Antes sem vds meus olhos se entristecao, Que com qualquer cousa outra se contentem. Antes os esqueijais que vos...
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Conversations at Cambridge

Charles Valentine De Grice - Authors, English - 1836 - 322 pages
...like the eye that long hath wept. * How pretty and fanciful is the description of Queen Isabella's hand: So white, so soft, so delicate, so sleek, As she had worn a lily for a glove. Depend upon it, Caractacus* contains nothing so good. MASON. Whom do you regard as the earliest...
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Conversations at Cambridge ...

Robert Aris Willmott - Authors, English - 1836 - 422 pages
...like the eye that long hath wept. * How pretty and fanciful is the description of Queen Isabella's hand : So white, so soft, so delicate, so sleek, As she had worn a lily for a glove. Depend upon it, Caractacus* contains nothing so good. MASON. Whom do you regard as the earliest...
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Six Months in the West Indies

Henry Nelson Coleridge - Blacks - 1841 - 338 pages
...service, for I cannot love as I ought : I am muddy, sulky, selfish, vain, and stupid. In visions hy night, in musings by day, in noise and in silence,...wind blowing in my face ! Intervalla vides humane comraoda. It is all one for that ; I swear from Camoens, Antes sem vos meus olhos se entristecao, Que...
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...with their touch might make a tiger meek, Or might great Atlas from his seat remove ; So white, BO soft, so delicate, so sleek, As she had worn a lily for a glove ; As might beget life where was never none, And put a spirit into the hardest stone. The fire...
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Introduction to American Literature: Or, The Origin and Development of the ...

Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...of Love. That with their touch might make a tiger meek, Or might great Atlas from his seat remove ; So white, so soft, so delicate, so sleek, As she had worn a lily for a glove ; As might beget life where was never none, And put a spirit into the hardest stone. The fire...
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