 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 504 pages
...my plumed crest : Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ; Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter, When he appear'd to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 506 pages
...my plumed crest: Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. Oh ! thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ; Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter, JVhen he appear'd to hapless Semele j More lovely than the... | |
 | English literature - 1856 - 642 pages
...in my face till my heart was like to break.' Then those two incomparable lines of Marlowe: — ( Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.' And Spenser's Una, lighting the wood With her loveliness, and making 'A sunshine in a shady place.'... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1856 - 590 pages
...soul again; Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. 0 thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ! Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter When he appeared to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1856 - 596 pages
...till my heart was like to break." Then those two incomparable lines of Marlowe: THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE. "O, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.1" And Spenser's Una, lighting the wood with her loyeliness, and making " A ennehino In a shady... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 544 pages
...crest : Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. Oh ! t In, 11 art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ; Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter, When he appear'd to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the... | |
 | 1856 - 560 pages
...ever given to the world. It shines down every woman that poet or painter ever drew. Helen of Greece, " Fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars," is the only one who approaches her. And both her character and that of her mother are master-pieces... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...my plumdd crest ; Yea, I will wound Achilles in the heel, And then return to Helen for a kiss. Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter,* When he appear'd to hapless Scmele ; More lovely than the... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - Bookbinding - 1860 - 576 pages
...ever given to the world. It shines down every woman that poet or painter ever drew. Helen of Greece, " Fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars," is the only one who approaches her. And both her character and that of her mother are masterpieces... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - Bookbinding - 1860 - 546 pages
...ever given to the world. It shines down every woman that poet or painter ever drew. Helen of Greece, " Fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars," is the only one who approaches her. And both her character and that of her mother are masterpieces... | |
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars... 
