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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 Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 448 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, — — — — — ^— — — — — — ^...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 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 so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say Tier body thought" To the peculiar intimacy of this connexion, (which, (•"the provoking charm of...
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The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Volume 1

Henry Fielding, Walter Scott - 1831 - 564 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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Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with ...

William Godwin - 1831 - 488 pages
...philosophical of our poets : 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. What a curious phenomenon is that of blushing ! It is impossible to witness this phenomenon without...
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The Monthly Review

1831 - 660 pages
...of our poets : " 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." What a curious phenomenon is that of blushing! It is impossible to witness this phenomenon without...
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Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with ...

William Godwin - 1831 - 614 pages
...philosophical of our poets : 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. What a curious phenomenon is that of blushing ! It is impossible to witness this phenomenon without...
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Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with ...

William Godwin - 1831 - 504 pages
...philosophical of our poets: 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. What a curious phenomenon is that of blushing! It is impossible to witness this phenomenon without...
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 1

1833 - 784 pages
...sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes." And again — " Her pure and eloquent blood Spake in her cheek, and so distinctly wrought. That one might almost say, her loay thought." We trust that the passages we have thus selected,. shall promote, considerably, if not...
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The Family Topographer: The Norfolk circuit: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire ...

Samuel Tymms - 1833 - 256 pages
...Drury, who died in 1610, and of whom Dr. Donne said, " Her pure and eloquent blood Spake 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 Hall. At HENGRAVE the superstitious...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary, Volume 19

1835 - 592 pages
...on her name a poetical immortality. — — — " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." The Hawsted estate passed through a female to Sir Christopher Wray, who sold it in 1656. * To return...
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