...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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....

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...