 | 1829 - 1008 էջ
...the sanctity, of our admiration, yet declare, in the delightful lines of Wordsworth, that she " Is a creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food ; 2M for transient sorrows, simple wile?, Praise, blame, IOVP, kisses, tears, and smiles." Of small... | |
 | 1865 - 790 էջ
...to impossible. At such a moment Maga would have been sweet, had she come in, brown but comely — " A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food." But, alas ! Maga was not, and in unsuspecting innocence the hand which at this moment writes took up... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1827 - 400 էջ
...be appreciated as they deserved. She was, in truth, formed after the imagination of the poet : — " A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. Such were the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 740 էջ
...free, And steps of virgin liberty ; A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food. * • « » A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfor1. and command ; And yet a spirit still,... | |
 | The Westminster Review January-April 1841 - 1841 - 582 էջ
...faithful description. The happy husband, who— " Sees her in a nearer view, A spirit yet a woman too— A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food," may think of her merely as a part of himself, the complement, as it were, of his own existence. Perhaps... | |
 | 1842 - 452 էջ
...acknowledged his failure, and the difficulty he found in creating " a spirit, yet a woman too," ' ' A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food. For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles." Most readers... | |
 | 1842 - 602 էջ
...out of that intimate and hallowed circle of domestic affections, where she is most beautiful— « A creature not too bright and good • For human nature's daily food, «For joys and sorrows, simple wiles, • Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles; «A perfect... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 էջ
...into poesy — into that sweetest picture of woman that ever dawned on poet's brain. Stella was — " A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles !" * • * *... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1844 - 432 էջ
...his patient and attentive nurse. Phrebe might have her faults, but we must take her as she was — A creature not too bright and good, For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. Unfortunately... | |
 | 1847 - 640 էջ
...into poesy — into that sweetest picture of woman that ever dawned on poet's brain. Stella was — " A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles." » * * * "... | |
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A creature not too bright and good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. 
