| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 416 pàgines
...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 of age... | |
| Robert Burns - 1809 - 328 pàgines
...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." Her eyes are fascinatmg ; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness,... | |
| Hannah More - 1809 - 270 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
| 1809 - 574 pàgines
...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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pàgines
...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 and largely hous'o'.ls'gbne, And chides us, slow-pac'd snails,... | |
| Hannah More - 1810 - 310 pàgines
...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 cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one could almost say her body thought. Her conversation, like her countenance, is compounded of liveliness,... | |
| Hannah More - 1810 - 504 pàgines
...features, as the joint triumph of in; tellect and sweet temper. A fine old poet has well described ier. 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,... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 420 pàgines
...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 yon might almost say her body thought. The well-known answer of a Grecian lady, is not a less high... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - 1810 - 420 pàgines
...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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