 | Anna Garlin Spencer - Families - 1923 - 338 pages
...in her sunshine share." — LOWELL. 46 "I loved the woman ; there was cue through whom I loved her, one Not learned, save in gracious household ways,...full of tender wants, No angel, but a dearer being, interpreter between the gods and men. "Happy he with such a mother ! Faith in womankind Beats with... | |
 | 1856 - 1432 pages
...poet, Miss Sutherland, will toll you what that is," and he repeated — " ' There was one I loved; one Not learned save in gracious household ways ;...full of tender wants; No angel, but a dearer being, dipt In angel instincts, breathing paradise, Interpreter between the gods and men ; Who looked all... | |
 | East India college - 1845 - 620 pages
...perfect music unio noble words." In a page or two further on, the Prince describes his mother: — "One Not learned, save in gracious household ways ; Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wanti; No Angel, but a dearer being, 11 dipt In angel instincts, breathing paradise, Interpreter between... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 572 pages
...its pages. A PERFECT WOMAN. "Not learned, save in gracious household ways, Not perfect, nay, but mil' of tender wants, No Angel, but a dearer being, all...Paradise, Interpreter between the Gods and men, Who look'd all native to her place, and yet On tiptoe seem'd to touch upon a sphere Too gross to tread,... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 pages
...Not learned, save in gracious household ways, ffot perfect, nay. but full of tender wants, No Jlngel, but a dearer being, all dipt In Angel instincts, breathing Paradise, Interpreter between the cods and men, Who looked all native to her place, anJ yet On tiptoe seemed to touch upon a sphere Too... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1848 - 186 pages
...than death, Or keeps his wing'd affections dipt with crime : Yet was there one thro' whom I loved her, one Not learned, save in gracious household ways,...Paradise, Interpreter between the Gods and men, Who look'd all native to her place, and yet On tiptoe seem'd to touch upon a sphere Too gross to tread,... | |
 | 1848 - 738 pages
...than death. Or keeps his wing'd affections dipt with crime; Yet was there one thro' whom I loved her, one Not learned, save in gracious household ways,...Paradise, Interpreter between the gods and men, Who look'd all native to her place, and yet On tiptoe seemed to touch upon a sphere Too gross to tread;... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 542 pages
...Princess," Tennyson describes the mother through whom he learned to love woman, and we give the passage : "One Not learned, save in gracious household ways,...instincts, breathing Paradise, Interpreter between the Gnds and men, Who looked all native to her place, and yet On tiptoe seemed to tou. h upon a sphere... | |
 | Chess - 1849 - 402 pages
...Chess. (Laughter.) The true feminine character was thus pourtrayed by their greatest living poet— " Not learned, save in gracious household ways ; Not...breathing paradise , Interpreter between the gods and man," Thus happily had Tennyson described the daughters of Eve ; let them do homage to all such gentle... | |
 | Lady Emily Ponsonby - 1850 - 304 pages
...Julian followed Mr. Greville into the garden, and Susan returned to her work to think. CHAPTER VII. One Not learned save in gracious household ways, Not...being, all dipt In angel instincts, breathing Paradise, Who looked all native to her place, and yet On tiptoe seemed to touch upon a sphere Too gross to tread.... | |
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Yet was there one thro" whom I loved her, one Not learned, save in gracious household ways. Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, !No Angel, but a dearer being, all dipt In Angel instincts, breathing Paradise... 
