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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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Camden's Britannia epitomized and continued, Volume 3

Samuel Tymms - 1842 - 252 pages
...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 Hall. At HENORAVE the superstitious...
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Titian: A Romance of Venice

Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1843 - 856 pages
...motions; in short, to complete the sketch, there needs but Donne's delicate description of his mistress— Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheek, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say—her body thought ! It might be deemed that mirth was the characteristic of her mind—for she...
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...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 the heavens fine. Life, with this pair,...
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The Living Age, Volume 213

1897 - 986 pages
...goneBeauty: that's 'color and proportion. Or the famous — Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought. Or, once more, what Mr. Saintsbury justly considers that most striking and original of Donne's many...
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The works of Henry Fielding, with memoir of the author, by T. Roscoe

Henry Fielding - 1845 - 578 pages
...could equal it. Then one might indeed cry out with the celebrated Dr. Donne : Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought. -Her pure and eloquent blood Her neck was long and finely turned : and here, if I was not afraid of offending...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...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 heavens fine. Life, with this pair,...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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 heavens fine. Life, with this pair,...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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 heavens fine. Life, with this pair,...
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Notes and Queries

1856 - 730 pages
...which these remarkable lines occur: " ' • . . Her pure and eloquent blood, Spoke in her chevies, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.*" Ibid., Vol. ii. p. "., art. HAWSTKD CHUIICH. Curions Use of Glass. — " Hawsted House, or Place, was...
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Wills and Inventories from the Registers of the Commissary of Bury St ...

Samuel Tymms - 1850 - 336 pages
...remarkable lines occur [Hist. Thingoe, p. 438]: " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." P. 216, 1. 7. Lady Wootton. Hesther, daughter and sole heir of Sir William Puckering, of Oswald Kirk,...
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