 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 Laureates of England, from Ben Jonson to Alfred Tennyson - Page 17edited by - 1895 - 459 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 pages
...earth, For Love is elder than his birth. SONG, FROM " THE SILENT WOMAN." (A lesson, •dear ladies.*) 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 mine eyes, but not my heart. FROM A CELEBRATION OF CHARTS.... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...Lord of himself, though not of lands ; And having nothing, yet hath all. WOTTON. THE SWEET NEGLECT. STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going...as free ! Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art, That strike mine eyes, but not my heart. JONSO.V. ON LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pages
...be powder'd, still perfumed : Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, AH is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give...as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart, EPITAPH ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE.... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...Condemned whole years in absence to deplore The image charms he shall behold no more. — Pope. SIMPLICITY. GIVE me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity...hair as free! Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; That strike mine eyes but not my heart. Ben Jonson. I would walk A weary... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1854 - 282 pages
...And each one wound his mother. EPICCENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN. 1609. THE GHACE OE SIMPLICITY. OTILL to be neat, still to be drest, ^ As you were going...as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.* BARTHOLOMEW FAIR. 1614. THE BALI-AD... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1855 - 440 pages
...mother, whose dim form Bends in dark ether from her infant's chair. SHELLEY. THE GRACE OF SIMPLICITY. Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going...hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. BEN JOKSOIJ. A RCHERY.— The... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1855 - 284 pages
...mistake, And each one wound his mother. EPICCENE; OR, THE SILENT WOMAN. 1609. THE GEACE OF SIMPLICITY. STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going...as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.* * This is one of the best known... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...of earth, For Love is elder than his birth. SONG, FROM " THE SILENT WOMAN." (A lesson, dear ladies.) Still to be neat, .still to be drest As you were going...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... | |
 | 1855 - 834 pages
...SILETT WOKAJI." SwbL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfumed : Lady, it is to be presumed, Though...look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace : Eobes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1856 - 590 pages
...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 presumed, Though art's hid causes...hair as free ; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not mine heart. ADVICE TO A RECKLESS YOUTH. Knowell.... | |
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