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" 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; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime... "
English Men of Letters: Chaucer, by Adolphus William Ward, 1896; Spenser, by ... - Page 116
1895
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A History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans, Volume 8

John Lingard - Great Britain - 1825 - 572 pages
...going on her progress. " How," he asked, " could he live alone in prison, while " she was afar off? He was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, " hunting...shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, some" times playing like Orpheus. But once amiss had bereaved him of " all." He then exclaims, " All...
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A History of England, from the First Invasion by the Romans, Volumes 7-8

John Lingard - Great Britain - 1827 - 714 pages
...going on her progress. " How," he asked, " could he live alone in prison, while she was afar off? He was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting...singing like an angel, sometimes playing like Orpheus. But once amiss had bereaved him of all." He then exclaims, " All those times past, the loves, the sighs,...
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The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Books - 1827 - 548 pages
...heart was never broken until now that he hears the queen goes away so far off," and speaks of her as " riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sometime siting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angell, sometime playing like...
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The Retrospective Review..

Henry Southern - 1827 - 554 pages
...heart was never broken until now that he hears the queen goes away so far off," and speaks of her as " riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sometime siting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angell, sometime playing like...
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The Retrospective Review, and Historical and ..., Volume 1; Volume 15

1827 - 550 pages
...heart was never broken until now that he hears the queen goes away so far off," and speaks of her as " riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sometime siting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angell, sometime playing like...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 6

David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 440 pages
...expedient employed by Essex, which, if possible, was more provoking to the queen depth of all misery. I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...the gentle •wind blowing her fair hair about her pare cheeks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an...
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The works of sir Walter Ralegh. To which are prefixed the lives of ..., Volume 8

sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 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,...her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel, sometime playing like...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 5

1830 - 428 pages
...or 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,...the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure face like a nymph, sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes...
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A civil and ecclesiastical history of England, to 1829, Volume 2

C. St. George - 1830 - 600 pages
...aloae in prison, while she was afar off?" He was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, huntinglike Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her cheeks like • nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel,...
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The Southern Review, Volume 8

Southern States - 1832 - 542 pages
...so great love and desire in so many journies, and ato now left behind in a dark prison all alone." " I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sitting in the shade like a goddess, singing like an angel," &c. This "Venus," as Hume remarks, was...
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