| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...this lady, and how unlike is a Pict, to that description Dr. Donne gives of his mistress ? • Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so...body thought.' ADVERTISEMENT. A young gentlewoman ef about nineteen years of age (bred in the family of a person of quality, lately deceased) who paints... | |
| Robert Burns - Dialect literature, Scottish - 1808 - 496 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...wrought, " That one would almost say her body thought." f Her eyes are fascinating; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness, and a noble mind. I do not... | |
| Robert Burns - English literature - 1809 - 328 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...wrought, " That one would almost say her body thought." Her eyes are fascinatmg ; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness, and a noble mind. I do not... | |
| Hannah More - Courtship - 1809 - 270 pages
...joint triumph of intellect and sweet temper. A fine old poet has Well described her: W, .ja.,, i 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,... | |
| English literature - 1809 - 574 pages
...features, but 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 cne could almost say her body thought. •* Her conversation, like her countenance, is compounded of... | |
| 1809 - 594 pages
...as Jh>: 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 cannot be derived from experience; she owes it to a tad so fine as enables her to seize on the strong... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 394 pages
...lady, and how unlike is a Pict, to that description Dr. Donne gives of his mis•fi-ess ? ' — — Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so...Advertisement. A young gentlewoman of about nineteen yearsof age (bred in the family of a person of quality, lately deceased) who paints the finest flesh-colour,... | |
| Hannah More - Conduct of life - 1810 - 310 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,... | |
| Hannah More - 1810 - 504 pages
...features, as the joint triumph of in; tellect and sweet temper. A fine old poet has well described ier. 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,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...Her body was th* clectrum, 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, IKT bodj thought ; She, she thus richly and largely hous'o'.ls'gbne, And chides... | |
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