 | Child rearing - 1832 - 338 pages
...asks the poet — that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the patriarch's, sooth a dying hour ; With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er...eschewing evil; With motions, graceful as a bird's in air j Thou art, in sober trulh, the veriest devil That e'ir clenched fingers in a captive's hair ! That... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...believe', that', with a smile whose blessing* Would', like the patriarch's',* soothe a dying hour'; With voice', as low', as gentle', and caressing',...moonlight bower'; With look', like patient Job's', eschewing0 evil'; With motions', graceful as a bird's in air'; Thou art', in sober truth', the veriest'... | |
 | Joseph Rodman Drake - Literary Criticism - 1835 - 226 pages
...Who will believe that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the Patriarch's, sooth a dying hour, With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower ; With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil ; With motions graceful, as a bird's... | |
 | Alnwick Castle, Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1836 - 114 pages
...sooth a dying hour, With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower; With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil;...clenched fingers in a captive's hair! That in thy breast there springs a poison fountain, Deadlier than that where bathes the Upas tree; And in thy wrath,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - Alnwick Castle - 1836 - 112 pages
...Who will believe that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the Patriarch's, sooth a dying hour, With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower; With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil; With motions graceful, as a bird's in... | |
 | Serial publications - 1837 - 552 pages
...sooth a dying hour, With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won marden's lip in moonlit bower; " With look, like patient Job's, eschewing...clenched fingers in a captive's hair! " That in thy breast there springs a poison fountain, Deadlier than that where bathes the Upas tree ; And in thy... | |
 | Serial publications - 1837 - 536 pages
...Who will believe that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the patriarch's, sooth a dying hour, With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower; " With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil; With motions graceful, as a bird's... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1837 - 572 pages
...Who will believe that, with a smile whose blessing Would, like the patriarch's,-sooth a dying hour, With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower; " With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil; With motions graceful, as a bird's... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...like the patriarch's'," sooth a dying hour; With voice', as low', as gentle', and caressing', As e'erb won maiden's lip in moonlight bower'; With look',...art', in sober truth', the veriest' . . . DEVIL' That e'erb cilnched fingers in a captive's hair'T That', in thy veins there springs a poison fountain',... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Huron, Lake (Mich. and Ont.) - 1839 - 362 pages
...soothe a dying hour ; With voice as low, as gentle, as caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower ; With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil...art, in sober truth, the veriest devil, That e'er clench'd fingers in a captive's hair ! HALLECK. MR. Johnson tells me, what pleases me much, that the... | |
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With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil ; With motions graceful as a bird's in air ; Thou art, in sober truth, the veriest devil That e'er clinched fingers in a captive's hair... 
