 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...  A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland ... - Side 99af Horace Walpole - 1806Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 472 sider
...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 - 1842 - 360 sider
...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 - 1843 - 690 sider
...wont to see her ridin! like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle windblowin: her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph,...sometimes playing like Orpheus: behold the sorrow of this world ! once amiss hath bereaved me of all ;" t and »ben sixty-eight, Lord Mountjoy, Lord Deputy of... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Joseph Wheeler (Author of A. short history of the Tower of London) - 1844 - 44 sider
...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, hunting...the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure face like a nymph, sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel, sometime... | |
 | 1854 - 696 sider
...how Raleigh " could not live alone in prison while she was afar off; " how he had been " wont to see her riding like Alexander [?], hunting like Diana,...the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure chceke like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel,... | |
 | John Barrow - 1845 - 540 sider
...a letter to Cecil, he speaks of his broken heart, on hearing that the Queen is gone away far off. " I, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph ; sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess ; sometime singing like an angel," &c. &c. Now all this... | |
 | Joseph Wheeler (Author of A short history of the Tower of London) - 1845 - 52 sider
...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, sometime singing like an angel, sometime... | |
 | 1844 - 836 sider
...Alexander, hunting like J Jiana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about hurjpurc cheeks like a nymph — sometimes sitting in the shade...singing like an angel, sometimes playing like Orpheus." MOTIVE TO MATHIMOKY. — A young lady who was lately led to the altar from a boarding-school confessed... | |
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