;
What though upon her speech there hung
The accent of the mountain tongue,
Those silver sounds, so soft, so clear,
The list'ner held his breath to hear.

_Lady of the Lake, Canto 1._

Spoilt she was on all hands.... But though, from these
circumstances, the city-beauty had become as wilful, as capricious,
and as affected, as unlimited indulgence seldom fails to render
those to whom it is extended; and although she exhibited upon many
occasions that affectation of extreme shyness, silence, and
reserve, which misses are apt to take for an amiable modesty; and
upon others, a considerable portion of that flippancy which youth
sometimes confounds with wit, she had much real shrewdness and
judgment, which wanted only opportunities of observation to refine
it--a lively, good-humoured, playful disposition, and an excellent
heart.--_The Fortunes of Nigel._

The buoyant vivacity with which she had resisted every touch of
adversity, had now assumed the air of composed and submissive, but
dauntless, resolution and constancy.--_Rob Roy._

Her complexion was exquisitely fair, but the noble cast of her head
and features prevented the insipidity which sometimes attaches to
fair beauties. Her clear blue eye, which sat enshrined beneath a
graceful eyebrow of brown, sufficiently marked to give expression
to the forehead, seemed capable to kindle as well as to melt, to
command as well as to beseech.--_Ivanhoe._

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

She was a Phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely Apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament;
Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair;
Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair;
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful Dawn;
A dancing Shape, and Image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and waylay.

_A Phantom of Delight._

A gentle maid, whose heart is lowly bred,
With joyousness, and with a thoughtful cheer.

_A Farewell._

A Spirit, yet a Woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin liberty;
A countenance in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet;
A Creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, k