 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 páginas
...flowers, when dead, are trampled on the ground; As broken glass no cement can unite ; So beauty, blemished once, is ever lost, In spite of physic, painting, pains and cost. Shakspeare. SEC. XVIII. THE CONNECTION BETWEEN GOODNESS AND HAPPINESS. 1 To be good, is to be happy:... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1874 - 396 páginas
...Stated to hare been printed from a corrected manuscript, and originally written by William Shatspeare. See GEN. MAG. for Oct. 1750. " Beauty is but a vain...impromptu, with a lead pencil, on the cover of a letter.— AUBOEA. Aurora visits first the clown, In dirty dingy russet gown : For house-maids then she 'tires... | |
 | Brainard Gardner Smith - 1891 - 188 páginas
...flowers when dead are trampled on the ground; As broken glass no cement can unite; So beauty blemished once is ever lost, In spite of physic, painting, pains, and cost. 31. Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue, Than ever man pronounced, or angel sung; Had I all... | |
 | Brainard Gardner Smith - 1898 - 216 páginas
...flowers when dead are trampled on the ground ; As broken glass no cement can unite ; So beauty blemished once is ever lost, In spite of physic, painting, pains, and cost. 31. Did sweeter sounds adorn my flowing tongue, Than ever man pronounced, or angel sung; Had I all... | |
 | Willis Tracy Hanson - 1913 - 218 páginas
...flowers when dead are trampled on the ground, As broken glass no cement can unite ; So beauty bleroish'd once is ever lost, In spite of physic, painting, pains, and cost. TITI.KS. The prevailing rage to catch the public ear by some specious or surprising title, has rendered... | |
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A brittle glass that breaketh presently :— " A fleeting good, a gloss, a glass, a flow'r, " Lost, faded, broken, dead, within an hour. " As goods when lost are wond'rous seldom found, " As faded gloss no rubbing can excite. " As flow'rs when dead are... 