 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...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... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...The Silent Woman."] Still to be ppwder'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. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ; Such sweet... | |
 | Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...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... | |
 | Poetry - 1808 - 506 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...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... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 330 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1811 - 482 pages
...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 - English drama - 1811 - 780 pages
...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 - French essays - 1811 - 572 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
