 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...age, Raleigh thus speaks of her, in a letter intended for her perusal: — " I that was wont to see her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world ! onceamiss hath bereaved me of all ;" £ and when sixty-eight, Lord Mountjoy, Lord Deputy of Ireland,... | |
 | 1840 - 824 pages
...misery ' from being deprived of the delight of seeing her ' — ' her that he had been wont to behold riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...singing like an angel, sometimes playing like Orpheus ! ' Notwithstanding every allowance that can be made for the occasional follies of the wise, and the... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1840 - 600 pages
...shewn to the queen : " How," he asks, " can I live alone in prison, while she is afar off- — I, who was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting...Sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes playing on the lute like Orpheus. But once amiss, hath bereaved me of all." He then adds, " all those... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 492 pages
...of misery " from being deprived of the light of seeing her" — "her that he had been wont to behold riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...shade like a goddess — sometimes singing like an angol, sometimes playing like SIR WALTER RALEIGH. Orpheus !" Notwithstanding every allowance .that... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 476 pages
...penned, potent with the condensed essence of old romance. The amorist in his prison thus sorrows : " I was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting...blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph ; sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel." Sir Walter knew how... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 pages
...condensed essence of old romance. The amorist in his prison thus sorrows : " I was wont to behold^her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph ; sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel." Sir Walter knew how... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 472 pages
...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, sometimes singing like an angel." Sir Walter knew how high the pulse beat of his royal mistress, now aged by her sixtieth year. He obtained... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1842 - 360 pages
...penned, potent with the condensed essence of old romance. The amorist in his prison thus sorrows : "I was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting...blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph ; sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel." Sir Walter knew how... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1843 - 970 pages
...age, Raleigh thus speaks of her, in a letter intended for her perusal: — " I that was wont to see her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure checks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade, like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel,... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 424 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,...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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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... 
