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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, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes... "
Supplement to the Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons - Page 28
by William Seward - 1797 - 304 pages
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The History of England, Volume 5

David Hume - Great Britain - 1775 - 446 pages
...behold her riding tike Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing-her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, fometimes fitting in the (hade like a Goddefs, fometimes finging like an angel, fometimes playing like Orpheus ; behold the...
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Mary queen of Scots vindicated. [With] Additions and corrections, Volume 4

John Whitaker - 1789 - 566 pages
...depth of all mifery. I, that was wont to behold " her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, 11 walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her " fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, " fometime ./?//*'ȣ in the Jhade like agoddejs, fome" \\mefinging like an angell, fometime playing...
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An Apology for the Believers in the Shakspeare-papers,: Which Were Exhibited ...

George Chalmers - 1797 - 656 pages
...— " I that was wont to fee her riding like Alex" ander, hunting like Diana, walking like Ve" nus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair " about her pure cheeks, like a nymph, fome" times fitting in the {hade, like a goddefs, " fometimes iinging like an angel, fometimes " playing...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature

English literature - 1805 - 570 pages
...the depth of all misery.. t sli.it was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Piaña, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair' . about her pore cheeks, like a nymph, sometime sitting in the shade like a goddtssreorr.etime singing like an...
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A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 478 pages
...to sir Robert Cecil, dated July 1592, Raleigh thus laments his exile from the queen's presence : " I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like...
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The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the ..., Volume 5

David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 552 pages
...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, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, " sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing...
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A sketch of the history of Maryland, during the three first years after its ...

John Leeds Bozman - Maryland - 1811 - 398 pages
...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,...her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing like...
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A Sketch of the History of Maryland During the Three First Years After Its ...

John Leeds Bozman - America - 1811 - 404 pages
...desire, in so many journeys, and am now left behind her in a dark prison all alone. I, that was wont 1o behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana,...her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an anpel, sometimes playing like...
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The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the revolution ...

David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 550 pages
...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,...fair hair about her pure cheeks, like *' a, nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, " sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 204

England - 1918 - 1062 pages
...hear of her, his sorrows were less. " I that was wont to behold her," he writes in a famous passage, "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; sometime playing like...
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