 It is wonderful to see how small she is, how pale her cheek, how bright and dark her eyes. There is not such another figure in the world ; and her black ringlets cluster down into her neck, and make her face look the whiter by their sable profusion.  Pen Pictures of Modern Authors - Page 218edited by - 1882 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 590 pages
...day when he least thinks of it. She is a good and kind fairy, however, and sweetly disposed towards the human race, although only remotely akin to it....There is not such another figure in the world ; and her black ringlets cluster down into her neck, and make her face look the whiter by their sable profusion.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 586 pages
...day when he least thinks of it. She is a good and kind fairy, however, and sweetly disposed towards the human race, although only remotely akin to it....dark her eyes. There is not such another figure in tlu world; and her black ringlets cluster down into hot neck, and make her face look the whiter by... | |
 | 1883 - 594 pages
...day. when he least thinks of it. She is a good and kind fairy, however, and sweetly disposed towards the human race, although only remotely akin to it. It is wonderful to see how small she is'^how pale her cheek* how bright and dark . her j?y_esk-'a'here is not such another figure in and... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1888 - 344 pages
...several descriptions of Mrs. Browning's personal appearance, thus Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote : — " It is wonderful to see how small she is, how pale...There is not such another figure in the world ; and her black ringlets cluster down on her neck, and make her face look the whiter by their sable profusion.... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1886 - 492 pages
...be grasped, and to speak with a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice.' ' It is wonderful,' he says, ' to see how small she is, how pale her cheek, how bright...There is not such another figure in the world, and her black ringlets cluster down into her neck and make her face look whiter.' There is another description... | |
 | Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Authors, English - 1887 - 310 pages
...shrill, yet sweet tenuity of voice. She is a good and kind fairy, however, and sweetly disposed towards the human race, although only remotely akin to it....There is not such another figure in the world ; and her black ringlets cluster down into her neck, and make her face look the whiter by their sable confusion.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1888 - 598 pages
...day when he least thinks of it. She is a good and kind fairy, however, and sweetly disposed towards the human race, although only remotely akin to it....There is not such another figure in the world ; and her black ringlets cluster down into her neck, and make her face look the whiter by their sable profusion.... | |
 | Catherine Jane Hamilton - Authors, English - 1893 - 352 pages
...least thinks of it. She is a good, kind fairy, however, and sweetly disposed to the human race, though only remotely akin to it. It is wonderful to see how...There is not such another figure in the world, and her black ringlets cluster down into her neck, and make her face look all the whiter by their sable... | |
 | Arthur Christopher Benson - English literature - 1896 - 336 pages
...day when he least thinks of it. She is a good and kind fairy, however, and sweetly disposed towards the human race, although only remotely akin to it....eyes. There is not such another figure in the world." " The boy," he says elsewhere, " was born in Florence, and prides himself upon being a Florentine,... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - Parapsychology - 1897 - 472 pages
...thinks of it. She is a good, kind fair)' however, and sweetly disposed towards the human race, though only remotely akin to it. It is wonderful to see how...her neck, and make her face look the whiter by their subtle profusion. I could not form any judgment about her age — it may range anywhere within the... | |
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