 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 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,... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1850 - 332 pages
...remarkable lines occur [Hist. Thingoe, p. 43S]: " 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,... | |
 | 1856 - 924 pages
...analogous to that of a poet describing a face beautiful for its intellectual expression : "Her pnrc and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheek and so distinctly...wrought That one might almost say her body thought." expresses itself through it so perfectly, it may easily be, that only the spirit attracts the attention... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 542 pages
...occurs in any other association whatsoever. . . . . " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her chock, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." To the peculiar intimacy of this connexion (which, as long as the beautiful object is under our survey,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 508 pages
...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 hsr body thcntght." To the peculiar intimacy of this connexion (which, as long as the beautiful object... | |
 | Mary (Queen of Scots) - 1855 - 306 pages
...Immortall Maid," a most beautiful piece of description. Her pure, and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheekes, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought. All human knowledge, continues Donne, is ignorance. The new learning casts doubt upon everything. Have... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...Anniversary. Line 245. 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. Elegy 8. The Comparison. She and comparisons are odious. BEN JONSON. 1574-1637. To Celia. [From " The... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 514 pages
...might indeed cry out with the celebrated Dr. Donne: Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her checks, 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... | |
 | 1857 - 372 pages
...illustrated these words of one of the old bards — ' Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in lier cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought ! ' ' Welcome, maiden, from thy blessed slumbers ! Thou art now well, and my heart is glad because... | |
 | Bury & West Suffolk Archæological Institute - 1859 - 526 pages
...elegy, in which these remarkable lines occur : " Her pure and eloquent blood " Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought " That one might almost say her body thought." On the top of the arch sits Aurora with her lap full of flowers, and one hand strewing flowers upon... | |
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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... 
