| John Stilwell Jenkins - Queens - 1852 - 562 pages
...the queen ; of her he thus spoke : "How can I live alone in prison, while she is afar off — I, who was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting...Sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes playing on the lute like Orpheus. But once amiss, hath bereaved me of all. All those times are past... | |
| John Stilwell Jenkins - Queens - 1852 - 560 pages
...queen ; of her he thus .spoke : " How can I live alone in prison, while she is afur off — I, who was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting...blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a m-inph. Sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes playing on the lnto like Orpheus.... | |
| Joseph Wheeler (Author of A short history of the Tower of London) - Armor - 1852 - 44 pages
...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, hunting...the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure face like a nymph, sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel, sometime... | |
| England - 1853 - 420 pages
...from attending Court, he wrote a letter to Sir Robert Cecil, in which he says : — ' " My heart was never broke till this day, that I hear the queen goes...Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing the fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph ; sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess ;... | |
| England - 1853 - 428 pages
...this day, that I hear the queen goes away so far off, whom I-have followed so many years with so groat love and desire in so many journeys, and am now left...Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing the fair hair about her pure cheeks like a nymph ; sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess ;... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - Explorers - 1853 - 454 pages
...behold her riding like Extravagant Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the jj^ffil^n. 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... | |
| American literature - 1854 - 598 pages
...hearing how Raleigh "could not live alone in prison while she was afar off;" how he had been "wont to see her riding like Alexander, (?) hunting like Diana,...like a nymph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a • Hentzner, p. 84. Allusions to her age were not ever likely to be hazarded in her presence, except... | |
| Charles Whitehead - Great Britain - 1854 - 346 pages
...or 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, sometime sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometime singing like an angel, sometime playing like... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1854 - 610 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,...blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymphj sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1854 - 566 pages
...three days, my sorrows were tiie less ; but even now my heart is cast into the depth of all misery. 1, that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander,...blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nvmph, sometimes sitting in the shade like a goddess, sometimes singing like an angel, sometimes playing... | |
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