| David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 510 pages
...that was wont to behold her riding like " Alexander , hunting like Diana , walking like Ve nut , *' the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure " cheeks , like a nymph , fometimes fitting in the fhade " like a Goddefs , fometimes iinging like an Angel , femeM times playing... | |
| William Seward - Anecdotes - 1797 - 752 pages
...depth of all mifery ! 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 ; fometimes fitting in " the fhade like a goddefs, fometimes fmging like " an Angel, fometimes playing... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 426 pages
...from the queen's presence: " 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 playing like... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 552 pages
...depth of all misery. 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 playing... | |
| John Leeds Bozman - America - 1811 - 404 pages
...a dark prison all alone. I, that was wont 1o 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 anpel, sometimes playing like... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 550 pages
...depth of all misery. 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 playing... | |
| England - 1918 - 1062 pages
...was wont to behold her," he writes in a famous passage, "riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, 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 ; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like... | |
| 1818 - 420 pages
...the queen goes away so far off," and speaks of her as " riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph, sometime siting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angell, sometime playing like... | |
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