| John Bell - English drama - 1792 - 316 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1800 - 440 pages
...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 richly' and largely hous'd, is go'rtfe,-''i ' ' Our prison's prison, earth, nor think us well... | |
| Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1811 - 590 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Cromwell - Suffolk (England) - 1818 - 320 pages
...memory of the lady of whom Dr. Donne observed, — Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought. That one might almost say her body thought. This figure of a young female is represented as large as life, lying upon a basement three feet high,... | |
| James Ford - English literature - 1818 - 432 pages
...instead of the departed daughter of his friend. " Her pure and eloquent blood " Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, " That one might almost say her body thought." They are inscribed on a portrait of her, and from the appearance of the paint were most probably placed... | |
| Charles Edward Dodd - Rhine River Valley - 1818 - 908 pages
...countrywomen, which Doctor Donne's beautiful lines suit: — " The pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." Striking beauty is, in fact, not the forte of the fair Germans near the Rhine — but they have often... | |
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