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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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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source : Passages ...

John Bartlett - 1870 - 802 pages
...On the Sacrament. 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 Dial/i of Mistress Drury. She and comparisons are odious.2 Elegy 8. The Comparison....
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The works of Henry Fielding, with an essay on his life and genius ..., Volume 6

Henry Fielding - 1871 - 598 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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Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Volume 2

William Shakespeare, Henry Norman 1814-1886 Hudson - 1872 - 542 pages
...of moral life : " 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." It is through this most delicate impressibility that she sometimes gets frightened out of her proper...
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The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume 2

Richard Crashaw - 1873 - 562 pages
...daring originality, sings of Mrs. Drury rapturously : ' Her pure and eloquent soul Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought" I have Hindi the same conception of Crashaw's thinking. It was so emotional as almost always to tremble...
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A First Sketch of English Literature

Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pages
...degrees of that ; wee understood Her by her sight ; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheekes, and so distinctly "wrought That one might almost say, her body thought. Shee, shee, thus richly and largely hous'd, is gone." Unreality of a style that sacrifices sense to...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...On the Sacrament. 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 Death of Mistress Drnry. She and comparisons are odious.2 Elegy 8. The Comparison....
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 30

1874 - 586 pages
...true woman we find depicted in Sophia Western : — "Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought. " This dainty conceit of Dr. Donne's exactly expresses the most perfect heroine drawn by Fielding....
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 30

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1874 - 606 pages
...true woman we find depicted in Sophia Western : — " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." This dainty conceit of Dr. Donne's exactly expresses the most perfect heroine drawn by Fielding. In...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...On the Sacrament. 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 Death of Mistress Drury. She and comparisons are odious.8 Elegy 8. 751* Comparison....
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Poets and Novelists: A Series of Literary Studies

George Barnett Smith - 1875 - 448 pages
...true woman we find depicted in Sophia Western :— ' Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.' This dainty conceit of Dr. Donne's exactly expresses the most perfect heroine drawn by Fielding. In...
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