...conventional; of which all one can say is, that it is vastly better than negligence and unculture. Her pure and eloquent blood spoke in her cheeks; And so distinctly wrought, You might have almost said her body thought. She was so instinct with feeling and intelligence. You...

...in every part with the spirit and intelligence of moral life. " We understood Her by her sight ; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so...wrought, That one might almost say her body thought." Hence her father describes her as " a maiden never bold j of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion...

...ON THE PROGRESS OF THE SOUL. The Second Anniversary. Line 245. We understood Her by her sight; her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so...wrought, That one might almost say her body thought. Elegy 8. The Comparison. She and comparisons are odious. BEN JONSON. 1574-1637. To Celia. [From " The...

...has also celebrated her memory in an elegy, in which these remarkable lines occur : " ' • . . Her pure and eloquent blood, Spoke in her cheeks, and...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,...

...beholds its object as a perfect unit. The soul is wholly embodied, and the body is wholly ensouled. "Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so...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,...

...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 so...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...

...window.) Betty Brain . . . Maggie Savage . . . Melinda Peebles . . . Oninka Small, Julie Cinnamon. "her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so...wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought." And if you did, by Golly, you'd be right PRIN. Thought you'd be back. You've cut it a bit fine, little...

...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 so...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...

...intended her "eloquent" blush to recall the celebrated lines from Donne's "Second Anniversary" ("her pure and eloquent blood / Spoke in her cheeks, and...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...

...women was a topic Donne wrote exquisitely about ('Her pure, and eloquent blood / Spoke in her cheekes, and so distinctly wrought, / That one might almost say, her body thought' - p. I96, ll. 244ff). Conversely, he has much to say on the meaninglessness of any feelings women display...