 | Charles Kingsley - Essays - 1860 - 424 pages
...with love and desire on so many journeys, and am now left behind in a dark prison all alone.' . . . . 'I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks/ and so forth, in a style in which the vulturine nose must needs scent carrion, just because the roses... | |
 | John Lingard - Great Britain - 1860 - 504 pages
...oo her progress. " How," lie .- ked, " could he live nlone in prison, while she *' was far off? He was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting " like Diana, walking like • euus, the gentli* wind blowing her fair hair " about IHT pure check* like .1 nympli, sometimes... | |
 | John George Edgar - 1861 - 364 pages
...Cecil that he was full of woe, that he could not live without seeing her, whom he was " wont to behold riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel." Nor had Raleigh exaggerated the royal weakness. His gross flattery had precisely the effect which he... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - Netherlands - 1867 - 630 pages
...period with which we are now occupied : — " I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair...goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playiug like Orpheus. All wounds have scars but those of fantasy, all affections their relentingbutthose... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - Netherlands - 1867 - 628 pages
...the period with which we are now occupied : — "I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair...goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playiug like Orpheus. All wounds have scars but those of fantasy, all affections theirrelentingbutthoseof... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1861 - 566 pages
...bide in prison while the is far off? I, who was wont to behold her, riding like Alexander, minting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing...her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph !" such a work should be framed. There is no louder trump that may sound out your praise, your hazard,... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1861 - 564 pages
...bide in prison while site is far off? I, who was wont to behold her, riditiy like Alexander, hun ting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her puru cheeks, like a nymph !" such a work should be framed. There is no louder trump that may sound... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1864 - 468 pages
...the condensed essence of old romance. The amorist in his prison thus sorrows: " I was wont to hehold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...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... | |
 | Edward George Harman - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 632 pages
...three dayes, 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 siting in the shade like a Goddess ; sometime singing like an angell ; sometime playing... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - English literature - 1916 - 146 pages
...three dayes, 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 angell; sometime playing... | |
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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... 
