Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought. The Spectator - Seite 154von Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1915Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1789 - 508 Seiten
...to her eyes. She is graceful without affecting an air, and unconcerned without appearing carelefs. Her having no manner of art in her mind, makes her want none in her perfon. How like is this lady, and how unlike is a Pift, to that defcription Dr. Donne gives of his... | |
| John Bell - 1792 - 316 Seiten
...you too is to make prophets quite forget their hea-ven, and bind the poets with eternal rapture, i Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought. You, for whose body God m.idc better clay, Or took souls' stuff,... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 Seiten
...beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul i» wholly embodied, and the body is wholly ensouled. ' Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought. That one might almost say her body thought.' Borneo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars, to make the... | |
| George Farquhar - 1797 - 466 Seiten
...behold you. too is to mahe prophets quite forget their heaven, and bind the poets with eternal rapture. ——Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one mighe almost say her body thought. You, for whose body God made betcer clay, Or took souls. stuff,... | |
| Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 Seiten
...died of a box of the ear, was the very lady, " whose * eloquent blood" Donne so celebrated " — — Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.'* »— and in this very Hawsted Church are the said eloquent-blooded... | |
| 1803 - 434 Seiten
...good-humour gives an alacrity to her eyes. She is graceful without affecting an air, and unconcerned without appearing careless. Her having no manner of art in...wrought, That one would almost say her body thought. 4 ADVERTISEMENT. ' A young gentlewoman of about nineteen years of age (bred in the family of a person... | |
| Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 664 Seiten
...colour, no vermillion could equal it. Then one might indeed cry out with the celebrated 'Dr. Donne: Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought. Her neck was long and finely turned : and here, if I was not afraid... | |
| Jeremiah Jingle - 1807 - 200 Seiten
...gives a mild lustre to her eyes. She is graceful without affefting an air, and unconcerned without appearing careless. Her having no manner of art in her mind, makes her want none in her person. " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 416 Seiten
...humour gives an alacrity to her eyes. She is graceful without affecting an air, and unc,oncerned without appearing careless. Her having no manner of art in...body thought.' ADVERTISEMENT. A young gentlewoman ef about nineteen years of age (bred in the family of a person of quality, lately deceased) who paints... | |
| Robert Burns - 1808 - 496 Seiten
...to Miss Burnet's. After the exercise of our riding to the Falls, Charlotte was exactly Dr. Donne's mistress : ; " Her pure and eloquent blood " Spoke...wrought, " That one would almost say her body thought." f Her eyes are fascinating; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness, and a noble mind. I do not... | |
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