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" Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought. "
The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson - Page 192
by British essayists - 1819
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The Annual biography and obituary, Volume 19

1835 - 494 pages
...whose well-known epitaph, by Donne, has conferred on her name a poetical immortality. •^^—— " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." The Hawsted estate passed through a female to Sir Christopher Wray,...
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Spectator (The)

English essays - 1836 - 1118 pages
...pore and ekxjnmt blood Spoke in her cheeks, lud so duunctly wrought. That one would almost i»y ber body thought. ADVERTISEMENT. A young gentlewoman of...(bred in the family of a person of quality, lately leceased), who paints the finest flesh-colour, want! a place, and is to be heard of at the house of...
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...blood Rpoke in IKT cheeka, and so distinctly wrought, 1 bat one would almost say her body thought.1 ADVERTISEMENT. A young gentlewoman of about nineteen...family of a person of quality, lately deceased) who pniutH the flnrst flesh-colour, wants a place, and is to be heard of at the house of Mynbeer Grotesque,...
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 2

Richard Cattermole - Christian poetry, English - 1836 - 436 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 housed, is gone, And chides...
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Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century: Including the Whole of ..., Volume 2

Giles Fletcher - English poetry - 1836 - 442 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 housed, is gone, And chides...
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The Works of Hannah More, Volume 2

Hannah More - English literature - 1836 - 452 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, Tnat one could almost say her body thought. Her conversation, like her countenance, is compounded of...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - Bookbinding - 1837 - 480 pages
...is a Pict, to that description Dr. Donne gives of his mistress? -Her pure and eloquent blood Ppoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought.1 ADVERTISEMENT. Л young gentlewoman of about nineteen years of age (bred in the family of...
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The Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Life

Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart - Scotland - 1837 - 628 pages
...F.iK.x, Charlotte was exactly Dr. Dono«'* mistress : " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheek», and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought." Her eyes are fascinating ; at once exprenive of good sense, tenderness, and & noble mind. I do not...
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The Romance of Biography: Or, Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets ...

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women - 1837 - 394 pages
...interest some readers to add, that Donne's famous lines, which have been quoted ad infinitum, — The pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, Ye might have almost said her body thought ! were not written on his wife, but on Elizabeth Drury,...
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The works of John Donne. With a memoir by H. Alford, Volume 6

John Donne - 1839 - 588 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...
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