| John Donne, Henry Alford - English poetry - 1839 - 582 pages
...Her body was the electrum, and did hold Many degrees of that ; we understood Her by her sight ; her pure, and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought ; She, she, thus richly and largely hous'd, is gone : And chides... | |
| John Donne - Sermons - 1839 - 598 pages
...hold limb gold, Her body was the electrum, Many degrees of that ; we understood Her by her sight ; her pure, and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought ; She, she, thus richly and largely hous'd, is gone ; And chides... | |
| Hannah More - 1840 - 832 pages
...features, as the joint triumph of intellect and sweet temper. A fine old poet has well described her : Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one could almost say her body thought. Her conversation, like her countenance, is compounded of liveliness,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1841 - 414 pages
...After the exercises of our riding to the Falls, Charlotte was exactly Dr Donne's mistress : — -" Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so...wrought, That one would almost say her body thought." Her eyes are fascinating ; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness, and a noble mind. I do not... | |
| Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...After the exercise of our riding to the Falls, Charlotte was exactly Dr. Donne's mistress : — " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so...wrought, That one would almost say her body thought." Accompanied by this charming dame, he visited an old lady, Mrs. Bruce, of Clackmannan, who, in the... | |
| British periodicals - 1841 - 640 pages
...beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul is wholly embodied, and the body is wholly ensouled. ' Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.' Romeo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars, to make the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays - 1841 - 324 pages
...beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul is wholly embodied, and the body is wholly ensouled. " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." Romeo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...description Dr. Donne gives of his mistress? -Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and to om he diverts himself with: on the contrary, if he...betrays any infirmity of old age, it is easy for a sta yean of age (bred in the family of a person of quality, lately deceased) who paints the finest fleuh-colnur.... | |
| Samuel Tymms - Counties - 1842 - 252 pages
...mural monument to a daughter of Sir Robert Drury, who died in 1610, and of whom Dr. Donne said, " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." It was the first ecclesiastical preferment of the pious Bishop... | |
| Hannah More - 1843 - 442 pages
...as the joint triumph of intellect and sweet temper. A fine old poet has well described her : — Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one could almost say her body thought. Her conversation, like her countenance, is compounded of liveliness,... | |
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