...the centre of the mere, .Were subiect to young Oswald's steady aim. Ereursi«n, book vii. A PORTRAIT. She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn; A daneing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay. I saw her upon nearer view, A spirit,...

...PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. C3 SHE WAS A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT. SHE was a phantom of delight, When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's...the cheerful dawn; A dancing shape, an image gay, A traveler between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength,...

...thousand voices, praises God! One can not look too often upon Mr. Wordsworth's charming female portrait: She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed...ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight, too, her dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful...

...Phantom of delight,' 3 1 Vol. ip 209. * Vol. ii. p. 100 : — ' She was a Phantom of delight When f1rst she gleamed upon my sight ; A lovely Apparition, sent...Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; 1 written in the third year of his married life. From these verses let him proceed to the following...

...She was a phantom of delight "When first she gleam'd upon my sight ; A lovely apparition, sent To bo a moment's ornament ; Her eyes as stars of twilight...dusky hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time's brightest liveliest dawn ; A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay....

...author's heart in the lines , ' She was a Phantom of delight,' " 1 Vol. ip 209. » Vol. ii. p. 100 : — ' She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; Her ayes as stars of Twilight fair ; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair ; written in the third year of...

...ENTAIL. FEOM THE SWEDISH OF EMILIE H. CABLES. fCoallmedfrom Page 123.J CHAPTER IX. THE SACRISTAN'S MARIK. "She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed...lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament" Wordtuorlh. A FEW days after the preceding conversation between the Colonel and his son, the former...

...author's heart in the lines " She was a Phantom of delight," * 1 Vol. ip 209. 2 Vol. ii. p. 100. : — " She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed...lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament ; written in the third year of his married life. From these verses let him proceed to the following...

...already know — ' her eyes ' — ' Like stars of twilight fair ; Like twilight, too, her dark brown hair ; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.' But strange it is to tell that, in these eyes of vesper gentleness, there was a considerable obliquity...

...of personal, mental, and moral graces : — " * She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam' d upon my sight— A lovely apparition sent To be a moment's ornament. , - Her eyes like stars of twilight fair — Like twilight too her dusky hair ; But all about her else was drawn...