 | Robert Herrick - English poetry - 1810 - 280 pages
...THE ROCK OF RUBIES, AND THE QUARRY OF PEARLS. SOME ask'd me where the rubies grew ; And nothing I did say, But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia....where ; Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and shew them there The quarrelets of pearl. XXVI. UPON ROSES. UNDER a lawn, than skies more clear, Some... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pages
...in the temple of Fame, to whic justly entitled by the exquisite beauty of his WE!* JULIA. Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing did I say, But...with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some asked how pearls did grow, anil who<i Then spake I to my girle, To part her lips, and show me there... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarry of Pcarlt. Some ask'd me where the rubies grew ; And nothing I did say ; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia....where ; Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and shew them there The quarrelets of pearl. Now this is making a petrefaction both of love and poetry.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarry of Pearls. Some ask'd me where the rubies grew ; And nothing I did say ; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia....where ; Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and shew them there The quarrelets of pearl. Now this is making a pctref action both of love and poetry.... | |
 | Books - 1822 - 384 pages
...Rock of Rubies and the Quarry of Pearls. " Some ask'd me where the rubies grew ; And nothing I did say, But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia....where ; Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and shew them there The quarrelets of pearl." Upon Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of Amaryllis.... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 392 pages
...Rock of Rubies and the Quarry of Pearls. " Some ask'd me where the rubies grew ; And nothing I did say, But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia....where; Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and shew them there The quarrelets of pearl." Upon Mrs. Elizabeth Wlieder, under the name of Amaryllis.... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1823 - 330 pages
...where the Rubies grew, And nothing I did say ; But with my finger pointed to The lips of JuliaSome ask'd how Pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke I to my giule, To part her lips, and shew me there • CONFOBMITIE. CONFORMITIE was ever knowne A foe to dissolution... | |
 | Robert Herrick - Elegiac poetry, English - 1825 - 334 pages
...ROCK OF RUBIES, AND THE QUARRIE OF PEARLS. S'OME ask'd me where the Rubies grew, And nothing I did say ; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia....how Pearls did grow, and where ; Then spoke I to my girle, To part her lips, and shew me there The quarelets of Pearl. CONFORMITIE. CONFORMITIE was ever... | |
 | Cupid - 1826 - 252 pages
...Drab is still beauteous to im: ! THE ROCK OF RUBIES, AND THE QUARRIE OF PEARLS. BY HERRICK. Some asked me, where the rubies grew ? And nothing did I say...with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. Some asked how pearls did grow and where ? Then spoke I to my girl, To part her lips, and shew'd them there... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 148 pages
...forthwith bade my Julia shew A bud in either cheek. Some ask'd me where the rubies growl And nothing I did say, But with my finger pointed to — The lips of Julia. Some ask how pearls did grow, and where i Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and shew them there,... | |
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S'OME ask'd me where the Rubies grew, And nothing I did say ; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. 
