...Sir Robert Drury, who died in 1610, and of whom Dr. Donne said, " Her pure and eloquent blood Spake in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." It was the first ecclesiastical preferment of the pious Bishop Hall. At HENGRAVE the superstitious...

...After the exercise of our riding to the Falls, Charlotte was exactly Dr. Donne's mistress :— • Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought." Her eyes are fascinating; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness,...

...Burnet's. After the exercise of our riding to the Falls, Charlotte was exactly Dr. Donne's mistress : — ' Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought.' Her eyes are fascinating ; at once expressive of good sense, tenderness,...

...whose well-known epitaph, by Donne, has conferred on her name a poetical immortality. — — — " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and...wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." REV. DR. DRURY. 3 The Hawsted estate passed through a female to Sir Christopher Wray, who sold it in...

...when, at the sudden opening of the gate, she turned, and met the eye and the smile of her cousin — " Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one would almost say her body thought." Ah, how in that brief moment, did all that was discordant pass...

...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...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...

...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...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...

...features, as 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, Tnat one could almost say her body thought. Her conversation, like her countenance, is compounded of...

...interest some readers to add, that Donne's famous lines, which have been quoted ad infinitum, — The pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, Ye might have almost said her body thought ! were not written on his wife, but on Elizabeth Drury,...

...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,...wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought ; She, she, thus richly and largely hous'd, is gone : And chides us slow-paced snails who crawl upon...