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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; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime... "
English Men of Letters: Chaucer, by Adolphus William Ward, 1896; Spenser, by ... - Page 116
1895
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 7

David Hume - Great Britain - 1789 - 510 pages
...days , my forrows were the " lefs ; but even now my heart is caft into the depth -of '' all mifery. I , 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...
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Mary queen of Scots vindicated. [With] Additions and corrections, Volume 4

John Whitaker - 1789 - 566 pages
...dayes; my forrows were the " lefs : but, even now, my heart is caft into the " 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,...
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Supplement to the Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons, Chiefly of the ...

William Seward - Anecdotes - 1797 - 752 pages
...three days, my " forrows were the lefs ; but even now my heart " is caft into the depth of all mifery ! I that was " wont to behold her riding like Alexander*...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...
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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,...sometimes playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this woild! once amiss, hath bereaved me of allt" Seward's Anecd. vol. vp 32.J baths: it was a slight luxury,...
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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,...the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an anpel, sometimes playing like Orpheus ; behold the sorrow of this world! once »miss hath bereaved...
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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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Miscellanea historica et critica, Volume 7

1818 - 420 pages
...heart was never broken until now that he hears the queen goes away so far off," and speaks of her as " riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking...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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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 728 pages
...dayes, my sorrowes were the lesse ; but even now my heart is cast into tJie depth of all misery. / that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her hair about her pure cheeks, /'« a nymph ; sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess ; sometimes...
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