| John Bell - 1792 - 316 pages
...you too is to make prophets quite forget their hea-ven, and bind the poets with eternal rapture, i Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and...wrought That one might almost say her body thought. You, for whose body God m.idc better clay, Or took souls' stuff, such as shall late decay, Or such... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...circumstance, the high progressive idealising instinct, these predominate later, and ever the *tep backward from the higher to the lower relations is...Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul i» wholly embodied, and the body is wholly ensouled. ' Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks,... | |
| Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...died of a box of the ear, was the very lady, " whose * eloquent blood" Donne so celebrated " — — Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks and...wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.'* »— and in this very Hawsted Church are the said eloquent-blooded lady's remains. This Lady's monument... | |
| Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 664 pages
...colour, no vermillion could equal it. Then one might indeed cry out with the celebrated 'Dr. Donne: Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and...wrought, That one might almost say her body thought. Her neck was long and finely turned : and here, if I was not afraid of offending her delicacy, I might... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...gold, 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 us, slow-pac'd snails,... | |
| Thomas Cromwell - 1818 - 320 pages
...this chancel contains the mural monument to the memory of the lady of whom Dr. Donne observed, — Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and...wrought. That one might almost say her body thought. This figure of a young female is represented as large as life, lying upon a basement three feet high,... | |
| James Ford - 1818 - 432 pages
...erroneouly said to be a description of Donne's mistress, instead of the departed daughter of his friend. " Her pure and eloquent blood " Spoke in her cheeks,...wrought, " That one might almost say her body thought." They are inscribed on a portrait of her, and from the appearance of the paint were most probably placed... | |
| Charles Edward Dodd - 1818 - 908 pages
...of that transparent lustre of our countrywomen, which Doctor Donne's beautiful lines suit: — " The pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so...wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." Striking beauty is, in fact, not the forte of the fair Germans near the Rhine — but they have often... | |
| Frederic Shoberl - 1818 - 480 pages
...south-east corner of the chancel, is a mural monument to the memory of the lady, of whom Dr. Donne says, Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and...distinctly wrought. That one might almost say her budy thought. It consists of a basement about 3 feet high, on which, under an ornamental arch, lies... | |
| 1820 - 380 pages
...natural 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...wrought, That one might almost say her body thought. Her neck was long and finely turned : and here, if I was not afraid of offending her delicacy, I might... | |
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