| 1840 - 430 pages
...blushed with blood of queens and klngi. Full on this easement shono the wintry moou, And threw warm gulfs on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon ; Rose bloom fell on her band), together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst. And on her hair... | |
| John Keats - English poetry - 1841 - 254 pages
...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings. Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw...splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven : — Porphyro grew faint : She knelt, so pure a tiling, so free from mortal taint. Anon his heart... | |
| William Gadiner - 1841 - 508 pages
...youthful fair, kneeling to ask heaven's grace, — so beautifully expressed by the poet, — Rose bloom fell on her hands together prest, And on her silver...soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory like a saint.* How the heavenly tones in solemn grandeur roll along ! It is only upon the continent that we can enjoy... | |
| william gardiner - 1841 - 500 pages
...heaven's grace, — so beautifully expressed by the poet, — Rose bloom fell on her hands together prcst, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory like a saint.* How the heavenly tones in solemn grandeur roll along ! It is only upon the continent that we can enjoy... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1841 - 378 pages
...saints," and its 'scutcheons"blushing with the blood of queens ?" But we must not stop the reader :— Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fab? breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands together prest,... | |
| Richard Brown (architect.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1841 - 618 pages
...in all the mansions that I have seen, this vitrum appears an opaque and coloured paste. — (A.) " Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fine breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon ; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together... | |
| 1842 - 818 pages
...of St. Agnes. VOL. VIII— 6 a stained glass-window, is acknowledged to be uni vailed : Full on the casement shone the wintry moon. And threw warm gules...glory, like a saint : She seem'da splendid angel, newly drcst, Save wings, for heaven. What poet ever described a maiden unrobing in erms of such delicate... | |
| Christianity - 1843 - 744 pages
...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, A shielded scutcheon blush'd with blood of queens and kings. xxv. " Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw...seem'da splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven:—Porphyro grew faint: She knelt, so pure a thing, so free from mortal taint. XXVI. " Soon,... | |
| William Goodman - Great Britain - 1843 - 342 pages
...Heaven's grace, so beautifully expressed by the poet :"| " Rose bloom fell on her hands together press'd, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory like a saint." KEAT'S Eve of St. Agnes. Sorrowfully, but truly, may the learned Digby say, " Gothic * Rob Roy. t Gardiner,... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...twilight saints, and dim emblazonings, Л shielded scutcheon blushed with blood of queens and kings. iles ; And every sen seemed a splendid angel newly drest, Save wings, for heaven ; Porphyro grew faint : She knelt, so pure... | |
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