 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
 | Beautiful poetry - 1855 - 440 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 : They strike mine eyes, but not... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 páginas
...Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not lound. 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 npt... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 374 páginas
...paragon of animals'. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust ? — Shakspeare. MCCCXXVI. 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... | |
 | 1856 - 372 páginas
...the paragon of animals'. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust ? — Shakspeare. MCCCXXVL 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... | |
 | 1856 - 570 páginas
...Breath she did perfume the air : Sacred and sweet, was all I saw in her. Ueailtj), — Ben Jonson. Q.IVE 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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1857 - 482 páginas
...conjure you, by all your fears of the contempt of a lady, who will at the first look estimate you, an juste, to a farthing a yard." As she left the room,...a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free " he paused — but Belinda recollected the remainder of the stanza — " Such sweet neglect more taketh... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 764 páginas
...position. When among the former, Ben Jonson's lines from the "Silent Woman," have often occurred to us : " Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace : Robes loosely flowing, hair as free, Such sweet neglect more tsketh me Than all the adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my... | |
 | M E. Hammond - 1858 - 352 páginas
...adorned person of the elegant querist), I bow to your superior judgment. With Rare Ben Jonson, — " ' 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 eyes, but not... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 916 páginas
...When among the former, Ben Jonson's lines from the '• Silent Woman, have often occurred to us : " Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free, Such eweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my... | |
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