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... Discourse on the Life and Character of Sir Walter Ralegh - Side 23av James Morrison Harris - 1846 - 71 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| C. St. George - 1830 - 600 sider
...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, sometimes... | |
| 1832 - 542 sider
...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,...Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sitting in the shade like a goddess, singing like an angel," &c. This "Venus,"... | |
| John Leeds Bozman - 1837 - 338 sider
...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,...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... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1838 - 744 sider
...age, Raleigh thus speaks of her, in a letter intended for her perusal: — " I that was wont to see / pure cheeks, like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade, like a goddess, sometimes singing like an... | |
| Agnes Strickland - 1840 - 600 sider
...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...— the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph. Sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes playing on the... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 492 sider
...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...— 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... | |
| 1840 - 824 sider
...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...— 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... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 476 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...; 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... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 sider
...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...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."... | |
| 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...; 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."... | |
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