 She had lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that, she had not lived enough to know...  Putnam's Monthly - Page 181857Full view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...yet a rose Of perished summers, like a rose in a book, Kept more for ruth than pleasure, — if past bloom. Past fading also. She had lived, we'll say,...life, which was not life at all, (But that, she had uot lived enough to know), Between the vicar and the county squires, The lord-lieutenant looking down... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1857 - 388 pages
...yet a rose Of perished summers, like a rose in a book, Kept more for ruth than pleasure, — if past bloom, Past fading also. She had lived, we'll say,...the county squires, The lord-lieutenant looking down sometimes From the empyreal, to assure their souls Against chance vulgarisms, and, in the abyss, The... | |
 | 1857 - 594 pages
...yet a rose Of perished summers, like a rose in a book, Kept more for ruth than pleasure, — if past bloom, Past fading also. She had lived, we'll say,...the county squires, The lord-lieutenant looking down sometimes From the empyreal, to assure their souls Against chance-vulgarisms, and, in the abyss, The... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1857 - 404 pages
...yet a rose Of perished summers, like a rose in a bpok, Kept more for ruth than pleasure, — if past bloom, Past fading also. She had lived, we'll say,...the county squires, The lord-lieutenant looking down sometimes From the empyreal, to assure their souls Against chance vulgarisms, and, in the abyss, The... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Epic poetry, English - 1857 - 420 pages
...book, Kept more for ruth than pleasure, — if past bloom, Past fading also. She had lived, we '11 say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life,...the county squires, The lord-lieutenant looking down sometimes From the empyreal, to assure their souls Against chance-vulgarisms, and, in the abyss, The... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1857 - 608 pages
...lent its aid to her earlier years, she was committed to the care of her father's sister, who lived " A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet...all, (But that she had not lived enough to know)." This well-meaning kinswoman made the utmost effort to engraft her own prosaic nature upon the child,... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 804 pages
...like a rose in a book. Kept more for ruth than pleasure, — if past bloom, Put fading also. She bad lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which wss not life at all, (Rut that, she had not lived enough to know), Retween the vicar and the county... | |
 | England - 1857 - 820 pages
...harmless life, ehe called a virtuous life, .V quiet life, which was not life at all, ( But that, ehe had not lived enough to know). Between the vicar and the county squires, The lord - lieutenant looking down sometimes From the empyreal, to assure their souls Against chance -... | |
 | Women's periodicals, English - 1862 - 378 pages
...we have the trials of her English training under the supervision of her maiden aunt, who had lived A harmless life, she called a virtuous life ; A quiet life, which was not life at all ; A HI ITT. of cage-bird life, born in a cage, Accounting that to leap from perch to perch Was art... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1864 - 418 pages
...rose Of perished summers, like a rose in a book, Kept more for ruth than pleasure, — if past hloom, Past fading also. She had lived we'll say, A harmless...the county squires, The lord-lieutenant looking down sometimes From the empyreal, to assure their souls Against chance vulgarisms, and, in the abyss, The... | |
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