Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought. Twelve Essays - Page 138by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 416 pages
...like is 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 distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought.' ADVERTISEMENT. A young gentlewoman ef about nineteen years of age... | |
| Robert Burns - 1808 - 496 pages
...Burnet's. 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 distinctly wrought, " That one would almost say her body thought." f Her eyes are fascinating; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness,... | |
| Hannah More - 1809 - 270 pages
...the 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,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1809 - 328 pages
...Burnet's. 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 distinctly wrought, " That one would almost say her body thought." Her eyes are fascinatmg ; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness,... | |
| 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
...features, 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 - 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,... | |
| Hannah More - 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,... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 420 pages
...appearance, and the inward feelings of the mind: but no Ethiopian poet could say of his mistress, , Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That you might almost say her body thought. The well-known answer of a Grecian lady, is not a less high... | |
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