 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 - 1825 - 322 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,...a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free " he paused — but Belinda recollected the remainder of the stanza — " Such sweet neglect more taketh... | |
 | Thomas Lyle - 1827 - 272 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 the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not... | |
 | Ancient ballads - 1827 - 270 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 the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my... | |
 | Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson - 1827 - 440 páginas
...they could never improve it. Egad, Sydenham, she reminds me of those lines of Ben Jonson's : — " 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... | |
 | Marianne Spencer Stanhope Hudson - 1827 - 428 páginas
...but they could never improve it. Egad, Sydenham, she reminds me of those lines of Ben Jonson's:— " 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 my... | |
 | Charles White - 1827 - 616 páginas
...they could never improve it. Egad, Sydcnham, she reminds me of those lines nt Ben Jonson's : — •' Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace. Robes loosely flowing, hair an free ; Such sweet neglect mure takcth me, Than all th* adulteries of art, Tliut strike mine eye,... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 páginas
...is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. (Jive 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... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...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 the adulteries of art, That strike mine eyes, but not... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 páginas
...least notice of me. — Gulliver. An open door profits nothing if the countenance be shut.— Cicero. 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 ; They strike mine eyes, bat not... | |
 | 1834 - 480 páginas
...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 pleaseth me Than all the adulteries of art, — They strike my eye, but not... | |
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