 | John Bell - English drama - 1792 - 316 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1809 - 596 pages
...confusing her mi mi poet has well described her: and dissipating her attention, on the Нет pure an<l eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one could almost say her body jng to their worth, and to arrange thought. them according to their place.... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 664 pages
...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... | |
 | Hannah More - Courtship - 1809 - 270 pages
...the joint triumph of intellect and sweet temper. A fine old poet has Well described her: W, .ja.,, i 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,... | |
 | 1809 - 594 pages
...features, as Jh>: 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 cannot be derived from experience; she owes it to a tad so fine as enables her to seize on the strong... | |
 | English literature - 1809 - 574 pages
...features, but 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 cne could almost say her body thought. •* Her conversation, like her countenance, is compounded of... | |
 | Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 420 pages
...between that appearance, and the inward feelings of the mind: but no Ethiopian poet could say of his mistress, , Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That you might almost say her body thought. The well-known answer of a Grecian lady, is not a less high... | |
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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. 
