 I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes...  Spenser - Page 116by Richard William Church - 1879 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 510 pages
...days , my forrows were the " lefs ; but even now my heart is caft into the depth -of '' all mifery. I , that was wont to behold her riding like " Alexander , hunting like Diana , walking like Ve nut , *' the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure " cheeks , like a nymph , fometimes... | |
 | John Whitaker - 1789 - 566 pages
...dayes; my forrows were the " lefs : but, even now, my heart is caft into the " depth of all mifery. I, that was wont to behold " her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, 11 walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her " fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph,... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1797 - 752 pages
...three days, my " forrows were the lefs ; but even now my heart " is caft into the depth of all mifery ! I that was " wont to behold her riding like Alexander*...her fair hair about her pure " cheeks, like a Nymph ; fometimes fitting in " the fhade like a goddefs, fometimes fmging like " an Angel, fometimes playing... | |
 | George Chalmers - 1797 - 656 pages
...— " I that was wont to fee her riding like Alex" ander, hunting like Diana, walking like Ve" nus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair " about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, fome" times fitting in the {hade, like a goddefs, " fometimes iinging like an angel, fometimes " playing... | |
 | English literature - 1805 - 570 pages
...the depth of all misery.. t sli.it was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Piaña, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair' . about her pore cheeks, like a nymph, sometime sitting in the shade like a goddtssreorr.etime singing like an... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 478 pages
...to sir Robert Cecil, dated July 1592, Raleigh thus laments his exile from the queen's presence : " I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this woild! once amiss, hath bereaved me of allt" Seward's Anecd. vol.... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 552 pages
...three days, my sorrows were the less ; but even " now my heart is cast into the depth of all misery. I, " that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like " Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss " hath bereaved me of all. O glory, that only... | |
 | John Leeds Bozman - Maryland - 1811 - 398 pages
...great love and desire, in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone. I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world! once amiss hath bereaved me of all. All these times past,... | |
 | John Leeds Bozman - America - 1811 - 404 pages
...desire, in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone. I, that was wont 1o behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana,...the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an anpel, sometimes playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world! once »miss hath bereaved... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 550 pages
...three days, my sorrows were the less : but even •' now my heart is cast into the depth of all misery. I, *' that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like " Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss •' hath bereaved me of all. O glory, that... | |
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