 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1867 - 508 pages
...then to quote the lines from Matthew Roydon's Astrophill as describing Goodwin's face exactly : — " A sweet, attractive kind of grace, A full assurance...comfort in a face, ->The lineaments of Gospel books." VOL. II. 14 As soon as he was old enough he entered the High School and commenced his preparatory course... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pages
...lovely cheerful eyne. To hear him speak, and sweetly smile, You were in Paradise the while. A tweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given...Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel boolcs — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. Above all others... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1880 - 674 pages
...perhaps of you, as it was of one of England's famous sons, that in your whole life there was — " A sweet, attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineament of Gospel -books; For sure that count'uance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are written in the... | |
 | George MacDonald - English literature - 1868 - 356 pages
...verses of which I shall quote, being no vain eulogy. Describing his personal appearance, he says : A sweet, attractive kind of grace, A full assurance...cannot lie Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. Was ever eye did see that face, Was ever ear did hear that tongue, Was ever mind did mind his grace That... | |
 | Anne Manning - 1868 - 216 pages
...there is a something which painting cannot give, and one of his admiring friends describes it as " A sweet, attractive kind of grace, A full assurance...cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye." It was no mean thing to have a countenance that reminded one of this original ; and Howard Clayton's... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1865 - 534 pages
...mental, and physical perfection. In him, while he lived, his friends, neither mean nor few, found ' A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance...comfort in a face, The lineaments of gospel books.' In him, after his death, they mourned ' A spotless friend, a matchless man, whose virtue ever shined,... | |
 | Catherine Marsh - 1868 - 414 pages
...Day on which we should receive the greeting and the blessing so dearly prized ; and look upon ' The sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given...comfort in a face The lineaments of gospel books.' As he was not allowed to venture out of doors in the cold weather, he wished to partake of the sacrament... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - England - 1869 - 384 pages
...words. The stanza has been often quoted, but rarely in connection with the person it celebrates. " A sweet, attractive kind of grace, A full assurance...comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel Books." In passing from Sidney to Raleigh, we pass to a less beautiful and engaging, but far more potent and... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1869 - 852 pages
...You were in Paradise the while. A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by loola ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. Above all others this is he, Which erst... | |
 | Children - 1870 - 568 pages
...seeing that more words would be useless, my stepmother, as usual, spoke them not. CHAPTER VI TEACUPS. " A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance...face, The lineaments of gospel books ; — I trow that count'nance cannot lie Whose thoughts are legible in the eye." —SYDNEY. WE were happily resting from... | |
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A sweet attractive kind of grace ; A full assurance given by looks ; Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books — I trow that count'nance cannot lye, Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. 
