 SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.  Waverly Novels: Kenilworth. The pirateby Walter Scott - 1842Snippet view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 654 pages
...of Minna, might almost be thought to have anticipated, though only in a rude outline, the exfluisite lines of Lord Byron, — " She walks in beauty, like...and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mdlovv'cl to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies." Their father loved the maidens both... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...the monarch of songSHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. She walks in beauty, like the'niglit Of cloudless climes ami starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright...that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half-impiiir'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 534 pages
...lines of Lord Byron, — " She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry bkies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her...Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaady day denies." Their father loved the maidens both so well, that it might be difficult to say which... | |
 | Richard Lalor Sheil - Law - 1854 - 826 pages
...wrote the lines commencing " She walks in beauty — like the light Of cloudless climes and stormy skies, And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes ;" was an earnest advocate for Emigration, went to Ceylon as Governor, and died in 1841.— M. Notwithstanding... | |
 | Richard Lalor Sheil - Ireland - 1854 - 386 pages
...the lines commencing " She walks in beauty — like the light Of cloudless climes and stormy slues, And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes ;" was an earnest advocate for Emigration, went to Ceylon as Governor, and died in 1841.— -M. Notwithstanding... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 434 pages
...Daughter," are not far removed from the school of Sternhold. HEBREW MELODIES. SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes...that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven... | |
 | Eliza B. Davis - American fiction - 1856 - 300 pages
...Wo loved thee passing well: then wert a beam Of pleasant beauty on this stormy sea." CHAPTER XVII. " She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes...dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies/' AFFAIRS at Glendale Farm had changed... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Melodies. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that 's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes ; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. Fare thee Well. Fare thee well ! and... | |
 | William Hunter (rector of Ayr acad.) - 1857 - 130 pages
...Unfolding every hour ; The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow'r. COWPER, 1800. She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes...that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. BYRON, 1824. The umbrageous oak in pomp outspread, Full oft, when storms the welkin rend, Draws lightning... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...BARBAULD. [GEORGE IV. SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless clinics and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and...that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half-impair'd the nameless grace Which waves in every raven... | |
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