 Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face; That makes...  The British Novelists: With an Essay, and Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Página 2021820Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | English poets - 1801
...Lady, it is to be presum'd, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art That strike mine eye, but not mine... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 458 páginas
...Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not... | |
 | Peter L. Courtier - 1806
...Lady, it is to be presum'd— Though art's hid causes are not foundAll is not sweet, all is not sound! Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free! Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; That strike mine eyes, but not my... | |
 | John Aikin - 1810 - 249 páginas
...Lady, it is to be presumed, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1811 - 452 páginas
...she left the room, Belinda heard Clarence Hervey repeat to lady Delacour— " Give me a look, gire me a face, " That makes simplicity a grace; " Robes...recollected the remainder of the stanza— " Such sweet neglect more taketh me «' Than all th' adulteries of art, " That strike mine eyes, but not mine... | |
 | 1811
...with regard to the charms of polite literature, as it is with regard to female attractions, V .. ' Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free. Such sweet neglect more taketh me '; ^.Thaa all the adulteries of art, . They strike mine eye, but... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816
...Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, ever, whom he followed more closely, though he made " no boast... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816
...perfumedLady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free — Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all th' adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816
...Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free — Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all th' adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1819 - 343 páginas
...had you in his eye when he composed that song :" Then in a voice like thunder, she chanted forth— " Give me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me." Miss Grizzy was in the utmost perplexity, between her inclination... | |
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