 | Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 636 страници
...And mild her look as ev'ning sun That gilds tiie GOBHE* stream. ' A river so called in Jamaica. BOOK The loveliest limbs her form compose, Such as her...native ease serene she sat, In elegance of charms complete, And every heart she won : False dress deformity may shade, True beauty courts no foreign... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1852 - 336 страници
...sun, That gilds the mountain stream. The loveliest limbs thy form compose, Such as thy sister-Venus chose In Florence, where she's seen : ' Both just alike, except the white — No difference at all at night The beauteous dames between. O, when thy ship had touched the strand, What raptures... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1852 - 334 страници
...sun, That gilds the mountain stream. The loveliest limbs thy form compose, Such as thy sister-Venus chose In Florence, where she's seen : Both just alike, except the white — No difference at all at night The beauteous dames between. O, when thy ship had touched the strand, What raptures... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1852 - 272 страници
...look as evening sun, That gilds the mountain stream. The loveliest limbs thy form compose, Such as thy sister- Venus chose In Florence, where she's seen : Both just alike, except the whiteNo difference at all at night The beauteous dames between. O, when thy ship had touched the strand,... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1856 - 458 страници
...sun, That gilds the mountain stream. The loveliest limbs thy form compose, Such as thy sister-Venus chose In Florence, where she's seen : Both just alike, except the white — No difference at all at night The beauteous dames between. O, when thy ship had touched the strand, What raptures... | |
 | Richard Davey - 1898 - 318 страници
...beam. Soft was her lip as silken down, And mild her look as ev'ning sun That gilds the Cobre stream. The loveliest limbs her form compose, Such as her sister Venus chose In Florence, where she's seen, But just alike, except the white, No difference, no — none at night, The beauteous dames between.... | |
 | Richard Davey - 1898 - 314 страници
...beam. Soft was her lip as silken down, And mild her look as evening sun That gilds the Cobre stream. The loveliest limbs her form compose, Such as her sister Venus chose In Florence, where she's seen, But just alike, except the white, No difference, no — none at night, The beauteous dames between.... | |
 | George Waldo Browne - 1907 - 254 страници
...loveliest limbs her form composed, Such as her sister Venus chose In Florence, where she's seen, But just alike, except the white, No difference, no — none at night, The beauteous dames between." Casting a half defiant, half frightened glance at us, the " sable Aphrodite " gives her dusky head... | |
 | 1969 - 122 страници
...Botticelli. The tenor of the verse can be gathered from the single stanza which the engraving illustrated: The loveliest limbs her form compose, Such as her...difference, no none at night, The beauteous dames between. 42. GRANVILLE SHARP. Autograph Manuscript Copybook of Received Letters. [jfyndon, 1768-73.} LCP 43.... | |
 | Felicity Nussbaum - 2003 - 356 страници
...reads in translation, "The white privet blossom is left to fall, black whortle beries are picked." The loveliest limbs her form compose, Such as her...no - none at night, The beauteous dames between." The narrator's wanton sowing of European seed upon African slave women is perversely justified as his... | |
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The loveliest limbs her form compose, Such as her sister VENUS chose, In FLORENCE, where she's seen ; Both just alike, except the white, No difference, no — none at night, The beauteous dames between. 
