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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... "
The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete Encyclopedic ... - Page 77
by John Ogilvie - 1883
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That make* all the rest. I see thee still ; And on thy IUI" and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which waa th' adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Hymn to Diana. [From ' Cynthia's Revele."]...
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The Bachelor of the Albany

Marmion Wilme Savage - 1848 - 238 pages
...bachelor pleased Mrs. Spread greatly, by recalling to her memory the exquisite lines of Ben Jonson— " Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity...as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; They strike my eyes, but not my heart." The miser asked Barker to take wine—sherry....
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The Sibyl: Or, New Oracles from the Poets

Caroline Howard Gilman - 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....
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 23

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...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 54

1849 - 508 pages
...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...free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me. Than all th' adulteries of art, — They strike mine eyes, but not my heart." But we grow rational, moral, dull...
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Cigars and tobacco, wine, and women, as they are, by a modern Epicurean

Cigars - 1849 - 134 pages
...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...free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all th' adulteries of art, — They strike mine eyes, but not my heart." But we grow rational, moral, dull...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 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 th' adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Hymn to Diana. [From ' Cynthia'»...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...Lady, it is to be prcsum'd, Though art's hid causes arc not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. new open'd. O, th' adulteries of art : They strike mine eye*, but not my heart. Hymn to Kama. [From ' Cynthia's Hevel»^...
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The Book of English Songs: From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pages
...Lady, it is to be presumed, Tho' 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...as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. ON CELIA SINGING. THOMAS C *P.EW, bom...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...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...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....
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