...who has also celebrated her memory in an elegy, in which these remarkable lines occur : " ' • . . Her pure and eloquent blood, Spoke in her cheeks,...distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.1 " Ibid., Vol. ii. p. 7., art. HAWSTED CHURCH. Curious Use of Glass, — " Hawsted House,...

...Bumet'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,...

...colour, no vermilion 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...

...she illustrated these words of one of the old bards — ' Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in lier cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought ! ' ' Welcome, maiden, from thy blessed slumbers ! Thou art now well, and my heart is glad because...

...was next her chin, • Some bee had stung it newly. Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her checks, 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...

...far from her side; and those whose eyes followed her to the gallery marvelled at her face there, — # nH $ % G% B ՚ RU d9 ƨW ф1u XT A* = r IBA%| XaÓ L"-E you might almost say her body thought;" for a thousand delicate nen'es were becoming vital once more,...

...the bone. One might contrast the embodied attitude with Donne's famous lines about Elizabeth Drury: her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and...wrought That one might almost say, her body thought: ('The Second Anniversary', line 244) which evoke perfectly a vital union of feeling and thought, body...

...(Pause.) PRIN. Quite long enough, I should imagine. DIBS. I know why you're doing this. PRIN. Do you. Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and...wrought That one might almost say, her body thought DIBS. You said that to me once. PRIN. I said it to you just now. DIBS. I mean, you said it about me....

...the idea. Donne's beautiful lines about the blushing girl describe the oneness of the human being: Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and...wrought That one might almost say her body thought. "Her body thought." The whole organism can think and thrill. Man is not to be mistaken for a merely...

...consciously intended her "eloquent" blush to recall the celebrated lines from Donne's "Second Anniversary" ("her pure and eloquent blood / Spoke in her cheeks,...wrought, / That one might almost say, her body thought"), the frequency with which those lines recur in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries can make it seem...