 | Suffolk Institute of Archaeology - 1859 - 514 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... | |
 | James Wynne - 1860 - 500 pages
...a portrait of Mrs. Elizabeth Drury, the lady whose " pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her Cheekes, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought." She lies upon a bed in a brocade gown, and the formidable ruff and cap of the period. — Drayton's... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1860 - 202 pages
...house ; But the foolish tears it down with her hands. Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought. A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty ; And while... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1861 - 506 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 justly... | |
 | 1856 - 496 pages
...a mistake analogous to that of a poet describing a face beautiful for its intellectual expression : "Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheek and...wrought That one might almost say her body thought." It is because the organization is merely the spontaneous outgrowth of the spiritual life, that it may... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...DONNE. 1573-1631. 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. Funeral Elegies on the Progress of the Soul. She and comparisons are odious.f Elegg 8. The Comparison.... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 182 pages
...inscribed on the frame of her portrait at Hardwicke : — Her puro, and eloquent blood Spoke in her chicks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought 1 This public condolence with a parent's and a patron's grief, seems to have given dissatisfaction... | |
 | Walter F. Tiffin - 1866 - 246 pages
...virtuous lady — .... "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 !" On the other hand, where there is silent misery, or sorrow, or hopeless love, as in the maid whose... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1869 - 216 pages
...struck with reverence, say, Here lies the man. i ER pure and eloquent blood i Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought. If N passing through death's gloomy vale, 3) When fears invade, and doubts assail, While leaning on... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 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." Eomco, if dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair,... | |
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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... 
