...interest some readers to add, that Donne's famous lines, which have been quoted ad infinitum, — The pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, Ye might have almost said her body thought ! were not written on his wife, but on Elizabeth Drury,...

...gold, Her body was the 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 thought ; She, she, thus richly and largely housed, is gone : And chides...

...gold, Her body was the 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 thought ; She, she, thus richly and largely hous'd, is gone : And chides...

...gold, Her body was the 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 thought ; She, she, thus richly and largely hous'd, is gone : And chides...

...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,...

...«'tiled complacency of good nature in the highest degree ; and her complexion, now that she has happily .. . The Poet likewise sent the above to Thomson s Collection. Another co feof our riding to the Falls, Charlotte was exactly Dr. Donne's mistress : — ' Her pure and eloquent...

...beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul is 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." Romeo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the...

...beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul is 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.' Romeo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars, to make the...

...a mural monument to a daughter of Sir Robert Drury, who died in 1610, and of whom Dr. Donne said, " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." It was the first ecclesiastical preferment of the pious Bishop...

...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,...