 | Caroline Howard Gilman - Quotations - 1848 - 320 pages
...and an arm and hand Of most bewitching whiteness. PRAED — Haunted Tree. 55. Hers is a look, hers is a face That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely...flowing, hair as free — Such sweet neglect more pleaseth thee Than all the adulteries of art, That strike the eye but not the heart. BEN JONSON. 50.... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...frivolity — innocent mirth of the heart in place of that which is faint and sickly on the lips — Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Hobes loosely Hawing, buir as free : Such sweet neglect more taUeth me. Than all the adulteries of... | |
 | 1849 - 508 pages
...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...art, — They strike mine eyes, but not my heart." But we grow rational, moral, dull (the last, at any rate), an unpardonable offence. Women as they are... | |
 | Cigars - 1849 - 134 pages
...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...art, — They strike mine eyes, but not my heart." But we grow rational, moral, dull (the last, at any rate), an unpardonable offence. Women as they are... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causee are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Gire Or ere the Hymn to Diana. [From ' Cynthia'» Rereis.1] Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be prcsum'd, Though art's hid causes arc glory of this world, I hate ye< I feel my heart new open'd. O, eye*, but not my heart. Hymn to Kama. [From ' Cynthia's Hevel»^ Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...j'ou were going to a feast ; Still to be powderM, still perfumed, Lady, it is to be presumed, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet,...adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. ON CELIA SINGING. THOMAS C *P.EW, bom about 1580, died 1639. Yoc that think love can convey, No other... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...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 not...free ; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not mine heart. [The Silent Woman.] Knouxtt. What... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd, still perfnm'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not...free ; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not mine heart. [Tic: Silent Woman.] 318 BEN JONSON.... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...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, Give me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity a grace ; liobcs loosely flowing, hair as free:... | |
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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. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes... 
