 A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance!  Recreations of a Recluse - Page 227by Francis Jacox - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 242 pages
...her arms across her chest, And look'd askance at Christabel — — Jesu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread... | |
 | 1816 - 658 pages
...couch'd her head upon her breast. And look'd askance at Christabel—— Jesu, Maria, shield her well! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, « And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread... | |
 | John Bickerton - Farrago - 1816 - 70 pages
...And couch'd her head upon her breast, And look'd askance at Christabel Jesu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, •• • And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, . And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread... | |
 | 1816 - 676 pages
...highly poetical,, and is expressed by the author with considerable felicity, though too minutely : " A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1816 - 678 pages
...couch'd her head upon her breast, And look'd askance at Christabel Jiesu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1820 - 636 pages
...that issues from ' a palpi ' tating snake,' ' a gordian shape of dazzling hue, \Yrmillion-spotted, golden, green, and blue ; Striped like a zebra, freckled...pard, Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd ; And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolv'd, or brighter shone, or interwreathed Their... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...once with shuddering and compassion. She was a gordian shape a! dazzling hue, Verinillion-spotled, golden, green, and blue; Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard, Eyed like a peacock, and. all crimson-barr'd ; * And full of silver moons, that, as she breathed, Dissolv'd or brighter shone, or... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 426 pages
...And couched her head upon her breast, And looked askance at Christabel Jesu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread... | |
 | Gift books - 1829 - 342 pages
...couched her head upon her breast, And looked askance at Christabel — Jesu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head ; Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...And couch'd her head upon her breast, And look'd askance at Christabel Jciu, Maria, shield her well ! A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice and moro of dread,... | |
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