| James Granger - Great Britain - 1824 - 580 pages
...were preceded in their office by Robert Barker. Mrs. ELIZABETH DRURY, died 1610, in her 15th year. Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought. — DR. DONNE. From the original painting in the possession of... | |
| James Granger - 1824 - 800 pages
...were preceded in their office by Robert Barker. Mrs. ELIZABETH DRURY, died 1610, in hqr 15th year. Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought. — DR. DONNE. From the original painting in the possession of... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 906 pages
...'Anatomie of the World, aud the Progress of the Suul,' pp. 201 — 238.) occur the following lines; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, 1 hat one might almost say her body thought : and others not unworthy of them. And his Death is elegiacally... | |
| William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 496 pages
...lines of the most deep-thinking and philosophical of our poets: 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. What a curious phenomenon is that of blushing! It is impossible... | |
| Books - 1831 - 660 pages
...lines of tbt most deep-thinking and philosophical of our poets : " 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." What a curious phenomenon is that of blushing! It is impossible... | |
| Henry Fielding, Walter Scott - England - 1831 - 564 pages
...colour, no vermilion could equal it. Then one might, indeed, cry out with the celebrated Dr. Donne, -Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought. Her neck was long, and finely turned : and here, if I was not afraid... | |
| William Godwin - Human beings - 1831 - 504 pages
...lines of the most deep-thinking and philosophical of our poets: 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. What a curious phenomenon is that of blushing! It is impossible... | |
| Robert Burns - 1834 - 360 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." Her eyes are fascinating; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness, and a noble mind. I do not... | |
| Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 368 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." Her eyes are fascinating ; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness, and a noble mind. I do not... | |
| Louisa Sidney Stanhope - 1835 - 276 pages
...at the sudden opening of the gate, she turned, and met the eye and the smile of her cousin — " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so...wrought, That one would almost say her body thought." Ah, how in that brief moment, did all that was discordant pass away from the mind and heart of Beresford... | |
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