 And seldom was a snood amid Such wild luxuriant ringlets hid. Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing ; And seldom o'er a breast so fair Mantled a plaid with modest care ; And never brooch the folds combined Above a heart...  Discipline: A Novel - Pagina 424door Mary Brunton - 1832 - 476 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Edmund Burke - 1812 - 850 pagina’s
...ringlets hid, Whose glossy black to shame might bring The phimnge of the raven's wing; And seldom o'er ;i breast so fair, Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never brooch the folds combin'd Above a heart more good and kind. Her kindness and her worth to spy. You need but gaze on... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 444 pagina’s
...luxuriant ringlets hid, Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing ; XIX. And seldom o'er a breast so fair Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never brooch the folds combined Above a heart more good and kind. Her kindness and her worth to spy, You need but gaze on... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 pagina’s
...wild luxuriant ringlets hid, Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing ; And seldom o'er a breast so fair, Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never brooch the folds combined Above a heart more good and kind. Her kindness and her worth to spy, You need but gaze on... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pagina’s
...luxuriant ringlets hid, " Whose glossy black to shame might bring " The plumage of the raven's wing; " And seldom o'er a breast so fair " Mantled a plaid with modest car*,. " And never brooch the folds combined " Above a heart more good and kind. " Her kindness and... | |
 | Mary Brunton - 1814 - 306 pagina’s
...despair, and the sobs of weakness, sunk by degrees into the meanings of an unquiet slumber. CHAP. XXVIL A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid. And seldom...myself relieved by the certainty that she was alive. 1 was astonished to find that she was awake, though so composed; and was wondering at this unaccountable... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pagina’s
...wild luxuriant ringlets hid, Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing; And seldom o'er a breast so fair, Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never brooch the fold combined Above a heart more good and kind. Her kindness and her worth to spy, You need but gaze... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pagina’s
...wild luxuriant ringlets hid, Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing ; And seldom o'er a breast so fair, Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never brooch the fold combined Above a heart more good and kind. Her kindness and her worth to spy, You need but gaze... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1825 - 1096 pagina’s
...wild luxuriant ringlets hid, Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing ; And seldom o'er a breast so fair, Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never brooch the folds combined Above a heart more good and kind. Her kindness and her worth to spy, You need but gaze on... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pagina’s
...wild luxuriant ringlets hid. Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing ; And seldom o'er a breast so fair Mantled a plaid with modest care ; And never brooch the folds combined Above a heart more good and kind. Her kindness and her worth to spy, You need but gaze on... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 pagina’s
...wild luxuriant ringlets hid. Whose glossy black to shame might bring The plumage of the raven's wing ; And seldom o'er a breast so fair, Mantled a plaid with modest care, And never brooch the fold combined Above a heart more good and kind. Her kindness and her worth to spy, You need but gaze... | |
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