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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 Splendid Advantages of Being a Woman

Charles James Dunphie - 1876 - 390 pages
...Mrs. Drury : — " 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." Every one forms his own ideal of supreme beauty. Mine is a woman with cheeks plump and red as a pair...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...wholly embodied, aud 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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Philosophical essays. 1855

Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 504 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 wronght, That one might almost say her body thought." To the peculiar intimacy of this connexion (which,...
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A Manual of English Literature

Henry Morley - 1879 - 706 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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The Poetical Works of Skelton and Donne: With a Memoir of Each ..

John Skelton - 1879 - 932 pages
...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 body thought : She, she thus richly and largely housed, is gone, And chides us, slow-paced snails, who crawl upon...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 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 flue. Life, with this pair,...
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Institute Essays: Read Before the " Mininsters' Institute," Providence, R.I ...

1880 - 298 pages
...think, or, at least, to be concerned in thinking. " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought" So it becomes a little easier to conceive of infinite mind, of infinite thought and will, not here...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the ..., Volumes 7-8

William Shakespeare - 1880 - 574 pages
...Elizabeth Drury : 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. 24 Worthy feeding has been rightly explained " a valuable tract of pasturage ; such as might be a worthy...
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Institute Essays: Read Before the " Mininsters' Institute," Providence, R.I ...

1880 - 308 pages
...think, or, at least, to be concerned in thinking. " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought." So it becomes a little easier to conceive of infinite mind, of infinite thought and will, not here...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The tempest. The winter's tale

William Shakespeare - 1880 - 302 pages
...Elizabeth Drury : 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. 24 Worthy feeding has been rightly explained " a valuable tract of pasturage ; such as might be a worthy...
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