Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought. Poems - Page 135by John Donne - 1896Full view - About this book
| John Bell - English drama - 1792 - 316 pages
...you too is to make prophets quite forget their hea-ven, and bind the poets with eternal rapture, i Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and...wrought That one might almost say her body thought. You, for whose body God m.idc better clay, Or took souls' stuff, such as shall late decay, Or such... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul i» wholly embodied, and the body is wholly ensouled. ' Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and...wrought. That one might almost say her body thought.' Borneo, if dead, should be cut up into little stars, to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair,... | |
| George Farquhar - 1797 - 466 pages
...behold you. too is to mahe prophets quite forget their heaven, and bind the poets with eternal rapture. ——Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one mighe almost say her body thought. You, for whose body God made betcer clay, Or took souls. stuff,... | |
| Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...died of a box of the ear, was the very lady, " whose * eloquent blood" Donne so celebrated " — — Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks and...wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.'* »— and in this very Hawsted Church are the said eloquent-blooded lady's remains. This Lady's monument... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 420 pages
...How like is this lady, and how unlike is a Pict, to that description Dr. Donne gives of his mistress? Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought. ' ADVERTISEMENT. ' A young gentlewoman of about nineteen years of... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...How like is this lady, and how unlike is a Pict, to that description Dr. Donne gives of his mistress? Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought. 4 ADVERTISEMENT. ' A young gentlewoman of about nineteen years of... | |
| 1809 - 596 pages
...confusing her mi mi poet has well described her: and dissipating her attention, on the Нет pure an<l eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one could almost say her body jng to their worth, and to arrange thought. them according to their place.... | |
| Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 664 pages
...colour, no vermillion could equal it. Then one might indeed cry out with the celebrated 'Dr. Donne: Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and...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... | |
| Jeremiah Jingle - American wit and humor - 1807 - 200 pages
...without appearing careless. Her having no manner of art in her mind, makes her want none in her person. " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought." It ^.. It will not be wondered at, that I should be so much in... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...like is this lady, and how unlike is a Pict, to that description Dr. Donne gives of his mistress ? • Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought.' ADVERTISEMENT. A young gentlewoman ef about nineteen years of age... | |
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