 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1880 - 248 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 whom we celebrate is gone before : She who had here so much essential joy, As no chance could distract,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 pages
...conceit in his description of Mary Ashburton : — " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought ; " and may have wondered, perhaps, from what source it was taken. It occurs in "An Anatomy of the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 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, largely housed, is gone, Aud chides us slow-paced snails who crawl upon Our... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 304 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... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 634 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... | |
 | 1076 pages
...increased by a natural outlet for passion and emotion. " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought." Cynthia looked a mere child in a delicate shade of pale pink Madras muslin, tastefully made and trimmed... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...degrees of that — we understood Her by her sight : her pure and eloquent blood Spoke iu her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought. She, she, thus richly, largely housed, is gone, And chides us slow-paced snails who crawl npon Our... | |
 | Denys Thompson - 1978 - 252 pages
...thinking-as-a-whole when he wrote, in his 'Second Anniversary': her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought. The language of such unified thinking is poetic, and symbolism is one of the devices it employs to... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...the often quoted metaphysical description of ablush: her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say, her body thought. The Firs* Anniversary has the even better-known lines about the conflict between new thought and old... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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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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... 
