 | 1873 - Liczba stron: 866
...an untroubled soul. An English poet once described her by repeating the old lines, — Her face is like the milky way i' the sky, — A meeting of gentle lights without a name. She was not alone ; an elderly lady sate on an arm-chair by the fire, engaged in knitting ; and a man, also... | |
 | 1847 - Liczba stron: 640
...or "as if;" or they may be involved in a metaphorical phrase, от an epithet. As — " Her face is like the Milky Way i' the sky : A meeting of gentle lights without a name." Or Goldsmith's line on Garrick : — " An abridgment of all that is pleasant in man. " " The rank is... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - Liczba stron: 386
...in his tragedy of Brennoralt, where a lover is looking on his sleeping mistress : — " Her face is like the milky way i' the sky, A meeting of gentle lights without a name." Feelings like these enabled his fair friends to put up with such pleasant contradictions to sentiment... | |
 | 1853 - Liczba stron: 748
...quotation taken from, and what •is the context ? I cannot be quite certain as to its verbal accuracy. " Her face was like the milky way i' the sky, A meeting of gentle lights without a name." VIA LACTEA. Nelson Rings. — I am in possession of a ring, •which in place of a stone has a metal... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1858 - Liczba stron: 792
...genius, has described in lines that an English reader may be pleased to see rescued from oblivion: — "Her face was like the milky way i' the sky, A meeting of gentle lights without a name."* The eyes so purely bright, the exquisite harmony of colouring between the dark (not too dark) hair,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - Liczba stron: 550
...in his tragedy of Brennora.lt, where a lover is looking on his sleeping mistress : — " Her face is like the milky way i' the sky, A meeting of gentle lights without a name " Feelings like these enabled his fair friends to put up with such pleasant contradictions to sentiment... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1862 - Liczba stron: 604
...next to a sea voyage, a desert march is the finest cosmetic ever invented. We looked upon each as if "Her face was like the Milky Way i' the sky, A meeting of gentle lights without a name." At Miller's Station, which we reached at 2 30 PM, there really was one pretty girl — which, according... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - Liczba stron: 828
...walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on. Brennoralt. Act ii. Her face is like the milky way i" the sky, A meeting of gentle lights without a name. Ibid. Act iii. The prince of darkness is a gentleman.1 The Goblins. 1 Shakespeare, A'ing Lear, Act... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1873 - Liczba stron: 674
...an untroubled soul. An English poet once described her by repeating the old lines, — " Her face is like the milky way i' the sky, — A meeting of gentle lights without a name." She was not alone ; an elderly lady sate on an arm-chair by the fire, engaged in knitting ; and a man, also... | |
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Her face is like the milky way i' the sky, — A meeting of gentle lights without a name. 
