| English poets - 1801 - 382 páginas
...it back to me ; Since when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. THE SWEET NEGLECT. STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd ; Lady, it is to be presum'd, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
| Lyre - 1806 - 208 páginas
...doth rise, Doth ask a drink divine: Put, might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine ! STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdred, still perfum'd ; Lady, it is to be presum'd— Though art's hid causes are not foundAll is... | |
| 1808 - 506 páginas
...who can bear? Oh ! let the sound be less divine, Or look the nymph less fair. Vucal Magazine, SONG. STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 512 páginas
...theft to reveal, To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been. THE SWEET NEGLECT. CTILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd ; Lady, it is to be presum'd, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All ts... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 páginas
...ixcept Love's fires the vertue have To fright the frost out of the grave. FROM THE SIIENT WOMAN. XXXIX. [STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfum'd : li'ly, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all... | |
| John Aikin - 1810 - 330 páginas
...written some pieces of great sweetness and elegant simplicity i of which this is a very pleating example. STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdcr'd, still perfumed, Lady, it is to be presumed, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All is not... | |
| George Ellis - 1811 - 482 páginas
...Since when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. SONG. [From " The Silent Woman."] STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 páginas
...her oil'd lips upon, like a sponge. I have made a song, 1 pr'ythee hear it, o' the subject. SONG. • Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ' ; Still tu be powdered, still perfum'd: Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found.... | |
| Michel de Montaigne, Pierre Coste - 1811 - 572 páginas
...drcst, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.f Some of the ancient poets have even asserted that t'o smell sweet, is to stink : as may be... | |
| Michel de Montaigne, Pierre Coste - 1811 - 576 páginas
...drcst, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be prcsum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.f Some of the ancient poets have even asserted that to smell sweet, is to stink : as may be judged... | |
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