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Hyperion: A Romance - Page 46
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 439 pages
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History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun, Volume 1

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. . . . O thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ! ' * ' Ah, my God, I would weep ! but the devil draws in my tears. Gush forth blood, instead of tears...
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History of English Literature, Volume 1

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 556 pages
...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 ! ' 1 ' Ah, my God, I would weep ! but the devil draws in my tears. Gush forth blood, instead of tears!...
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Acrostics in prose and verse, a sequel to Double acrostics by various ...

Acrostics - 1871 - 312 pages
...found." o. " Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topmost towers of Ilion ? Oh thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars." C. " Thou know'st too well My heart was to thy rudder tied with strings, And thou should'st tow me...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 7

1871 - 692 pages
...now Madame la Marquise de Blank. Never was there a face more worthy than hers of being lauded as " fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars," for there was dusk in the complexion as well as splendor in the eyes. Almost every woman of Rio, in...
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Fairy Stories with a Purpose

William Henry Davenport Adams - Conduct of life - 1871 - 128 pages
...Rosetta, as she stood before her enraptured lover in all the lustre of youthful loveliness. " Oh, she was fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars ! " as some mortal poet has sung. I am sure your Highness would have deemed her worthy of a high place...
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The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 pages
...more, I suppose. So we must be content to stay in-doors, and listen to the sound of the eaves-dropping rain. It gives me time to finish some of these rough...would have betrayed himself to the maternal eye of Mrs Ashburlon, had she not been wholly absorbed in the follies of a fashionable novel. Ere long, the fair...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 30

1874 - 1078 pages
...coloured piece of imagery, such as — " The ebon gates of ever-burning hell," from Faustus ; or this : " O thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars." or this from the Jew of Malta : — " Like the sad presaging raven that tolls The sick man's passport...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies! Ibid. O, thou art fairer than the evening air, Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. [bid. 1 Quoted by Shakespeare, As You Lihe It, Act iii. Sc. 5. 1 6 Marlowe. — Hooher. [Faustus continued....
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 30

1874 - 586 pages
...piece of imagery, such as — " The ebon gates of ever-burning hell," from Faitstus ; or this : " 0 thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars." or this from the Jew of Malta : — " Like the sad presaging raven that tolls The sick man's passport...
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Transactions, Volumes 3-4

New Shakspere Society (London, England) - 1875 - 558 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 appeared to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the...
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