 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 Atlantic Monthly - Page 4971866Full view - About this book
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...Ladv, it is to be prefum'd, Tho' art's hid caufes arc not found, All is not fweet, all is not found. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes SIMPLICITY a grace; Robes loole.lv flowing, hair as free ; Such SWEET NEGLKCT more taketh me Than all th" adulteries of art THE... | |
 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...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 not sweet,...loosely flowing, hair as free ; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art That strike mine eye, but not mine heart. HUE AND CRY AFTER... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 468 pages
...SONG. [From " 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...loosely flowing, hair as free ; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. [From " Masques... | |
 | Lyre - 1806 - 208 pages
...be powdred, still perfum'd ; Lady, it is to be presum'd— Though art's hid causes are not foundAll is not sweet, all is not sound! Give me a look, give...loosely flowing, hair as free! Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; That strike mine eyes, but not my heart. THOMJS CAREW. 1620.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1810 - 330 pages
...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 sweet,...loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. * B. JONSON. * This... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 482 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 takcth me Than all th' adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but Dot my heart. [from " Masques at Court."] BEAUTIES,... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 472 pages
...SON 6. [From " The Silent Woman."] 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...loosely flowing, hair as free ; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. [ From " Masques... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 pages
...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. All is not...face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely (lowing, haïras free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Thiin all th' adulteries of art ; They strike... | |
 | 1811 - 596 pages
...with regard to the charms of polite literature, as it is with regard to female attractions, V .. ' Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity...loosely flowing, hair as free. Such sweet neglect more taketh me '; ^.Thaa all the adulteries of art, . They strike mine eye, but not my heart.' The application... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1811 - 402 pages
...she left the room, Belinda heard Clarence Hervey repeat to lady Delacour— " Give me a look, gire me a face, " That makes simplicity a grace; " Robes loosely flowing, hair as free " he paused—but Belinda recollected the remainder of the stanza— " Such sweet neglect more taketh... | |
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