She, of whose soul, if we may say, 'twas gold, Her body was th' electrum, and did hold Many degrees of that ; we understood Her by her sight ; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say, her body... Gossip about portraits - Página 20de Walter F. Tiffin - 1866 - 223 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| John Bell - 1792 - 316 páginas
...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, such as shall late decay, Or such... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 páginas
...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 heavens fine. Life, with this pair,... | |
| John Bell - 1800 - 440 páginas
...whose Soul, if we may say 'twas gold, Her body was th' electrum, and did hold Many degrees of thai. We understood ' ' ', Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in lier checks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought ; She, she thus... | |
| Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 páginas
...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 lady's remains. This Lady's monument... | |
| Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 664 páginas
...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 of offending her delicacy, I might... | |
| Hannah More - 1809 - 442 páginas
...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 checks and so distinctly wrought, That one could almost say her body thought. Her conversation, like her countenance, is compounded of liveliness,... | |
| Henry Fielding - 1809 - 578 páginas
...Then one might, indeed, cry ont with the celehrated Dr. Donne, .,...-.... Her pure and eloqnent hlood Spoke in her checks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her hody thought. Her neck was long, and finely turned : and here, if I was not afraid of offending her... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 páginas
...whose aoul if we may say, ' t waa gold, Her body was th* clectrum, and did hold Many degrees of that; we understood Her by her sight ; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might .almost say, IKT bodj thought ; She, she thus richly... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 páginas
...occurs in any cither association whatsoever. > % " Her pure and eloquent blood "Spoke in her cheek, and so distinctly wrought, " That one might almost say her body thought." To the peculiar intimacy of this connection, (which, as long as the beautiful object is under our survey,... | |
| 1817 - 692 páginas
...when Captain Nevison, alluding to her, exclaimed, " Her clear and eloquent blood Spoke in her face, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." Than with which sentiment 1 think I cannot better close, particularly as I shall not make my readers... | |
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