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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. "
Twelve Essays - Page 138
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pages
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Memoirs of the Loves of the Poets: Biographical Sketches of Women Celebrated ...

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...
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The works of Henry Fielding, with memoir of the author, by T. Roscoe

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...
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The Complete Works of Hannah More, Volume 2

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,...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

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,...
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Essays

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...
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Eliza Cook's Journal, Volume 3

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...
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Works of the Camden Society, Issue 49

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,...
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The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers, Volume 2

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,...
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The Life and Works of Robert Burns, Volume 2

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,...
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Walton's Lives, with notes. The life of dr. Donne [ed. by T.E. Tomlins].

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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