 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
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1833 - 484 páginas
...absolutely below par ! — Make your escape to Marriott, I conjure you ; by all your fears of the contempt of a lady who will at the first look estimate you,...grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free — " he paused — but Belinda recollected the remainder of the stanza — " Such sweet neglect more takelh... | |
 | 1835 - 378 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... | |
 | Morris Mattson - 1835 - 224 páginas
...skin. Such a being it must have been that was pictured in the poet's fancy when he exclaimed — " 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 take mine eyes, but not my... | |
 | Garland - 1836 - 246 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... | |
 | George Field - 1839 - 490 páginas
...simplicity, in its chief respect, has been thus admirably apostrophized by an eminent dramatic poet : " 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, Which strike my eye, but not my heart."... | |
 | 1839 - 876 páginas
...The first scene contains those delightful lines, which everybody knows : — ' Give me a look, gire me a face. That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ; Such sweet neglect more tnketh me, Than all th' adulteries of art; ты.-у strike mine eyes, but... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1840 - 486 páginas
...estimate you, au juste, to a farthing a yard." As she left the room, Belinda heard Clarence Kerrey repeat to Lady Delacour— " Give me a look, give...grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free—" he paused — but Belinda recollected the remainder of the stanza — " Bach sweet neglect more taketh... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1841 - 448 páginas
...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," &c.*&c. Miss Grizzy was in the utmost perplexity, between her inclination... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 322 páginas
...have drawn it from the Lady Hungerford of his time, aided by the charm of his own imagination : — " 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 eye but not... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 648 páginas
...have drawn it from the Lady Hungerford of his time, aided by the charm of his own imagination : — " 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 eye but not... | |
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