 | William Hazlitt - 1904 - 458 pages
...premising our own frank avowal that we are wholly unable to divine the meaning of any portion of it. " A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...never seeks ; Makes such a vision to the sight As nils a father's eyes with light ; And pleasures flow in so thick and fast Upon his heart, that he at... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1905 - 172 pages
...maid, The aged knight, Sir Leoline, Led forth the lady Geraldine 1 THE CONCLUSION TO PART THE SECOND A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so unlike each other ; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 168 pages
...maid, The aged knight, Sir Leoline, Led forth the lady Geraldine! 655 THE CONCLUSION TO PART THE SECOND A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight 660 As fills a father's eyes with light; And pleasures flow in so thick and fast Upon his heart, that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 218 pages
...of his friend. MS.W.; STC(c); SH; First Edition; Ed. 1828; Ed. 1829. THE CONCLUSION TO PART II • A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight Hi 660 As fills a father's eyes with light ; And pleasures flow in so thick and fast Upon his heart,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 540 pages
...the lady Geraldine! The Conclusion to Part the Second. A little child, a limber elf Siuging. daucing to itself. A fairy thing with red round cheeks, That always finds, and never seeks, 660 Makes such a vision to the sight fttgig, um besondere Absicht dahinter zu vermuten. — 647. A... | |
 | 1907 - 646 pages
...forth the lady Geraldine! The Conclusion to Part the Second. A little child, a liniber elf Siuging, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks, That always flnds, and uever seeks, 660 Makes such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light; And... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 442 pages
...thing with red round cheeks Singing, dancing to itself, That always finds, and never seeks, Makes'such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light; Upon his heart, that he at last And pleasures flow in so thick and fast Must needs express his love's... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1908 - 142 pages
...The aged knight, Sir Leoline, Led forth the lady Geraldine ! 655 THE CONCLUSION TO PART THE SECOND A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight eeo As fills a father's eyes with light; And pleasures flow in so thick and fast Upon his heart, that... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 pages
...modern Philomels Sustain our spirits with their roundelays. HARTLEY COLERIDGE. 216. A LITTLE CHILD A LITTLE child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...his love's excess With words of unmeant bitterness. ST COLERIDGE (Christabel). 217. THEY HAD BEEN FRIENDS IN YOUTH ALAS ! they had been friends in youth... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - 1910 - 358 pages
...grating teeth," and with words of mock anger. In "Christabel" the feeling is rendered and explained : "A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to...his love's excess With words of unmeant bitterness." And Coleridge further explains it in lines as magical and as memorable : " Perhaps 'tis pretty to force... | |
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A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks That always finds, and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light... 
