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" She, of whose soul, if we may say, 'twas 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... "
The Battle Abbey Roll: With Some Account of the Norman Lineages - Page 343
by Catherine Lucy Wilhelmina Powlett Duchess of Cleveland - 1889
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The Suffolk Garland: Or, a Collection of Poems, Songs, Tales, Ballads ...

James Ford - 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...
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The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces ..., Volume 19, Part 1

1820 - 380 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...
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The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is ...

Henry Fielding - 1821 - 846 pages
...might indeed cry out with the celebrated Dr Donne, Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke it 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...
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An Autumn Near the Rhine; Or Sketches of Courts, Society, and Scenery in ...

Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 614 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." I should not say, that striking personal charms were in general the portion of the fair Germans near...
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An autumn near the Rhine; or, Sketches of courts, society, scenery etc. in ...

Charles Edward Dodd - 1821 - 626 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." I should not say, that striking personal charms were in general the portion of the fair Germans near...
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A Biographical History of England: From Egbert the Great to the Revolution ...

James Granger - 1824 - 466 pages
...Mrs. ELIZABETH DRURY, died 1610, in her •15th year. Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought. — DR. DONNE. From the original painting hi the possession of Sir J. CulItim, hart. James Basire sculp....
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A Biographical History of England: From Egbert the Great to the Revolution ...

James Granger - 1824 - 580 pages
...Mrs. ELIZABETH DRURY, died 1610, in her 15th year. Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought. — DR. DONNE. From the original painting in the possession of Sir J. Cullum, hurt. James Basire sculp....
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English Life, Or Manners at Home: In Four Pictures ...

1825 - 260 pages
...irresistible attraction of ever varying expression. ' Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." Yet, amidst all this fluctuating expression, she never resembled any other. If I had had to personify...
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The English portion of the library of ... Francis Wrangham [a catalogue ...

Francis Wrangham - 1826 - 906 pages
...Soul,' pp.201 — 238.) occur the following lines; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought) That one might almost say her body thought; and others not unworthy of them. And his Death is elegiacnlly bewailed by Bps- King and Corbet, Edw....
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...other ; a union to which nothing completely analogous occurs in any other association whatsoever. " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheek, and...wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." To the peculiar intimacy of this connexion, (which, (i• the provoking charm of Calif altogether,")...
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