 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 440 pages
...There was also an expedient employed by Essex, which, if possible, was more provoking to the queen depth of all misery. I, that was wont to behold her...the gentle •wind blowing her fair hair about her pare cheeks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829 - 810 pages
...in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone. While she was yet nigher at hand, that I might hear of her once in two or three...playing like Orpheus : behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all. O glory, that only shineth in misfortune, what is become of thy... | |
 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 pages
...in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone. While she was yet nigher at hand, that I might hear of her once in two or three...playing like Orpheus : behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all. O glory, that only shineth in misfortune, what is become of thy... | |
 | 1830 - 428 pages
...heart was never broken till this day, that I hear the Queen goes away so far off, whom I have followed so many years with so great love and desire, in so...the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure face like a nymph, sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes... | |
 | C. St. George - 1830 - 600 pages
...aloae in prison, while she was afar off?" He was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, huntinglike Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her cheeks like • nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel,... | |
 | 1832 - 542 pages
...so great love and desire in so many journies, and ato now left behind in a dark prison all alone." " I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sitting in the shade like a goddess, singing like an angel," &c. This "Venus," as Hume remarks, was... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1833 - 464 pages
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 | John Leeds Bozman - 1837 - 338 pages
...great love and desire, in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone. I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1838 - 744 pages
...age, Raleigh thus speaks of her, in a letter intended for her perusal: — " I that was wont to see / sometimes sitting in the shade, like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1840 - 600 pages
...shewn to the queen : " How," he asks, " can I live alone in prison, while she is afar off- — I, who was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting...her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph. Sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes playing on the lute like Orpheus. But once... | |
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I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime... 
