 | Philip Stewart Robinson - Animals - 1885 - 406 pages
...swift," and again, " sleeping in beauty on the mangled prey, as panthers sleep ; " Wordsworth — " He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he," and so with others. In the East a " panther waist," " panther elegance," is a stereotyped phrase in the... | |
 | English poetry - 1887 - 370 pages
...a boy The moon, the glory of the sun, And streams that murmur as they run Had been his dearest joy. He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as lie ; And when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. Among the... | |
 | Avianus - Animals - 1887 - 254 pages
...form, colour, and movement, are natural types of beauty. Wordsworth Ruth 37 He was a lovely youth! 1 guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he. From the earliest period of the Roman Empire to the latest no gift was more acceptable to the Roman... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 268 pages
...boy, The moon, the glory of the sun, And streams that murmur as they run, Had been his dearest joy. He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the...play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. Among the Indians he had fought; And with him many tales he brought Of pleasure and of fear ; Such... | |
 | Sir Edward Bruce Hamley - 1889 - 352 pages
...the best-known stanza in it, describing the young man who proves false to Ruth, is thus worded :— " He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he." " I guess " is very vulgar, inappropriate — for there is no guessing in the case — and evidently... | |
 | Sir Edward Bruce Hamley - English literature - 1889 - 352 pages
...does not strike us as a very happy or natural simile in itself ; and when the stanza runs on — " And, when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea," we are not the more reconciled to it by the sudden change from panther to dolphin ; for the latter... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...sun, And streams that murmur as they run, Had been his dearest joy. He was a lovely youth ! I guess l The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he...play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. Among the Indians he had fought ; And with him many tales he brought Of pleasure and of fear ; Such... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 362 pages
...boy, The moon, the glory of the sun, And streams that murmur as they run, 35 Had been his dearest joy. He was a lovely Youth ! I guess The panther in the...fair as he ; And, when he chose to sport and play, 40 No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. Among the Indians he had fought, And with him many... | |
 | 1892 - 728 pages
...green satin, She looped it as high as her knee.' Old Ballad. 5. 'The youth from Georgia's shore — I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he.' WORDSWORTH'S Ruth. 6. Dr. Jekyll in ' Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,' by RJ STEVENSON. CORRECT ANSWERS RECEIVED.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1893 - 502 pages
...Wrecks ere Winter. CHAPTER VIII. He was a lovely youth, I gness ; The panther in the wilderness Was uot so fair as he ; And when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay, Upon the tropic sea. WORDS WOBTH. THE light foot of Mordaunt Mertoun was not long of bearing him to Jarlshof. He entered... | |
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He was a lovely youth ! I guess The panther in the wilderness Was not so fair as he ; And, when he chose to sport and play, No dolphin ever was so gay Upon the tropic sea. 
