| 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 earnest in making... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 416 pages
...unc,oncerned without appearing careless. Her having no manner of art in her mind, makes her want none in her person. How like is this lady, and how unlike...cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought.' ADVERTISEMENT. A young gentlewoman ef about nineteen years of age (bred in the... | |
| 1808 - 384 pages
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| Robert Burns - Dialect literature, Scottish - 1808 - 496 pages
...to Miss Burnet's. After the exercise of our riding to the Falls, Charlotte was exactly Dr. Donne's mistress : ; " Her pure and eloquent blood " Spoke...and so distinctly wrought, " That one would almost say her body thought." f Her eyes are fascinating; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness, and... | |
| Robert Burns - English literature - 1809 - 328 pages
...to Miss Burnet's. After the exercise of our riding to the Falls, Charlotte was exactly Dr. Donne's mistress: - " Her pure and eloquent blood " Spoke...and so distinctly wrought, " That one would almost say her body thought." Her eyes are fascinatmg ; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness, and... | |
| Hannah More - Courtship - 1809 - 270 pages
...the joint triumph of intellect and sweet temper. A fine old poet has Well described her: W, .ja.,, i Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks and so distinctly wrought. That one could almost say her body thought Her conversation, like her countenance, is compounded of liveliness,... | |
| English literature - 1809 - 574 pages
...features, but the joint triumph of intellect and sweet temper. A fine old poet has well described her: Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That cne could almost say her body thought. •* Her conversation, like her countenance, is compounded of... | |
| 1809 - 594 pages
...features, as Jh>: joint triumph of intellect' and sweet temper. A fine old poet has well described her : Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That cannot be derived from experience; she owes it to a tad so fine as enables her to seize on the strong... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - Landscape gardening - 1810 - 420 pages
...connexion between that appearance, and the inward feelings of the mind: but no Ethiopian poet could say of his mistress, , Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That you might almost say her body thought. The well-known answer of a Grecian lady, is not a less high... | |
| Sir Uvedale Price - Aesthetics - 1810 - 420 pages
...connexion between that appearance, and the inward feelings of the mind : but no Ethiopian poet could say of his mistress, Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke In her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought> .That yon might almost say her body thought. The well-known answer of a Grecian lady, is not a less high... | |
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