| John Bell - 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1803 - 420 pages
...in her person. How like is this lady, and how unlike is a Pict, to that description Dr. Donne gives of his mistress? Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought. ' ADVERTISEMENT. ' A young gentlewoman of about nineteen years... | |
| 1803 - 434 pages
...in her person. How like is this lady, and how unlike is a Pict, to that description Dr. Donne gives of his mistress? Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought. 4 ADVERTISEMENT. ' A young gentlewoman of about nineteen years... | |
| 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... | |
| Jeremiah Jingle - 1807 - 200 pages
...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 say her body thought." It ^.. It will not be wondered at, that I should be so much... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 416 pages
...in her person. How like is this lady, and how unlike is a Pict, to that description Dr. Donne gives of his mistress ? • Her pure and eloquent blood...Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought.' ADVERTISEMENT. A young gentlewoman ef about nineteen years... | |
| Robert Burns - 1808 - 496 pages
...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 in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, " That one would almost say her body thought." f Her eyes are fascinating; at once expressive of good sense,... | |
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