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
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1844 - 384 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, the... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1845 - 578 pages
...colour, no vermilion could equal it. Then one might indeed cry out with the celebrated Dr. Donne : Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought. -Her pure and eloquent blood Her neck was long and finely turned : and here, if I was not afraid of... | |
| Hannah More - 1847 - 446 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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...glances, they advance to acts of courtesy, of gallantry, then to fiery passion, to plighting troth and marriage. Passion beholds its object as a perfect...body is wholly ensouled. Her pure and eloquent blood That one might almost say her body thought. Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, Borneo,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...glances, they advance to acts of courtesy, of gallantry, then to fierypassion, to plighting troth, and marriage. Passion beholds its object as a perfect...ensouled. "Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeka, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." Romeo, if dead, should... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1850 - 432 pages
...glances, they advance to acts of courtesy, of gallantry, — (hen to fiery passion, to plighting troth and marriage. Passion beholds its object as a perfect...wholly embodied, and the body is wholly ensouled. Night, day, studies, talents, kingdom, religion, are all contained in this form full of soul, in this... | |
| Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1850 - 332 pages
...celebrated her memory in an elegy, in which these remarkable lines occur [Hist. Thingoe, p. 43S]: " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and...wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." P. 216, 1. 7. Lady Wootton. Hesther, daughter and sole heir of Sir William Puckering, of Oswald Kirk,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1851 - 332 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 fascinating ; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1852 - 336 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 fascinating; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness,... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1852 - 174 pages
...following lines inscrihed on the frame of her portrait at Hardwicke : — Her pure and eloquent hlood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her hody thought ! This puhlic condolence with a parent's and a patron's grief, seems to have given dissatisfaction... | |
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