 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
 | John Donne, Henry Alford - 1839 - 604 pages
...gold, 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,...wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought ; She, she, thus richly and largely housed, is gone : And chides us slow-paced snails who crawl upon... | |
 | John Donne, Henry Alford - 1839 - 582 pages
...gold, 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,...wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought ; She, she, thus richly and largely hous'd, is gone : And chides us slow-paced snails who crawl upon... | |
 | Hannah More - 1840 - 832 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,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1841 - 414 pages
...After the exercises 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 fascinating ; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness,... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1841 - 384 pages
...mind. 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." Accompanied by this charming dame, he visited an old lady, Mrs.... | |
 | Samuel Tymms - 1842 - 252 pages
...a mural monument to a daughter of Sir Robert Drury, who died in 1610, and of whom Dr. Donne said, " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and...wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." It was the first ecclesiastical preferment of the pious Bishop Hall. At HENORAVE the superstitious... | |
 | Samson Davis - 1843 - 66 pages
...FULLY INSCRIBED. PRINCIPLES PHYSIOGNOMY, &c. CHAPTER I. Introduction. — Corporeal Physiognomy . " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one could almost say her body thought." s WHAT numerous beauties in human nature lie unregarded merely... | |
 | Hannah More - 1843 - 442 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,... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...again. For the world's beauty is decay'd OP goneBeauty: that's 'color and proportion. Or the famous — Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks and...wrought That one might almost say her body thought. Or, once more, what Mr. Saintsbury justly considers that most striking and original of Donne's many... | |
 | 1856 - 924 pages
...a face beautiful for its intellectual expression : "Her pnrc and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheek and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought." It is because the organization is merely the spontaneous outgrowth of the spiritual life, that it may... | |
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