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
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 568 sider
...could not live alone in prison while she was afar off; ' how he had been ' wont to see her riding1 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... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 sider
...hearing how Raleigh "could not live nlone in prison while she was afar off;" how he had been "wont to see her riding like Alexander, (?) hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing ber fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a • Hentzner,... | |
| David Hume - 1854 - 618 sider
...cast into the depth of all misery.- T, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting lake 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... | |
| Joel Tyler Headley, J. T. Headley - 1855 - 356 sider
...two or three days, my sorrows were the less, but even now my heart is cast into the depth of misery. I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure face like a nymph — sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an... | |
| John Lingard - 1855 - 498 sider
...going on her progress. " How," lie asked, " could he live alone in prison, wbile she " was far off? He 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 singing like an... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1855 - 482 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...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... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 sider
...love and desire on so many journeys, and am now left behind in a dark piison all alone." . . . . " I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fuir hair about her pure checks," and so forth, in a style in which the vulturine nose must needs scent... | |
| Eugene Lawrence - 1855 - 420 sider
...three days, my sorrows wore tho less, but even now my heart is cast into tho depths of all misery. I was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, tho gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her puro chocks, sometimes sitting on tho shade like a... | |
| 1856 - 864 sider
...misery, "from being deprived of the delight of seeing her" — her that he " had boon 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 an... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1859 - 506 sider
...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,...Venus, the gentle 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... | |
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