 | Isabella Banks - 1882 - 324 pages
...am unfashionable, too ; for to my mind she is perfection — in dress as in all things else." " True loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament ; but is when unadorned adorned the most," chimed in Mr. Devereaux. " I see nothing wanting in your sister's attire, Mrs. Devereaux. A plain garment... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1882 - 448 pages
...for a virgin to be lost in a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence. — Quarles. 914 Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament ; but is, when unadorned, adorned the most. — Thomson. 915 Beauty ! thou pretty plaything, dear deceit ! — Blair. 916 The soul-subduing sentiment,... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 pages
...huzzas. — Id. Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest. — Id. Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. — THOMSON. No man can improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1882 - 286 pages
...ungepufct, 'when not in grand toilet;' or 'when unadorned.' Compare the well-known verse by Thomson : ' Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorn'd the most." 1. 21. war — noHjlwenktg : say, 'may perhaps be necessary.' In accordance with... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...something, therefore, that corresponds with right reason, and is not merely the creature of fancy. Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophratus, a silent cheat;... | |
 | Girls - 1883 - 162 pages
...on her polished limbs, Veiled in a simple robe ; their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. Thoughtless of beauty, she was beauty's self, Recluse amid the close embowering woods. As in the hollow... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...stemmed the torrent of a downward age. Line isio. Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain. Autumn. Line -2. Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most.1 Line 204. He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty concealed.... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1885 - 436 pages
...pulcrast, nimis ornatast.' Id ¡pan in, 'the very absence of adornment.' Thomson's Seasons, Autumn 204, 'Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament. But is, when unadorned, adorned the most'. etiam Incompta, 'even in disarray', lit. 'unkempt', used to keep up the comparison of the oratio to... | |
 | 1885 - 452 pages
...improve none. If a woman's ear be pretty what in the whole of nature can be prettier ? Surely it " Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, ^ But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." If it be not pretty — well, why emphasize and call attention to the fact by means of gold and silver... | |
 | 1886 - 552 pages
...fair-proportioned on her polished limbs, Veiled in a simple robe, their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most ; Thoughtless of beauty, she was Beauty's self, Recluse amid the close-embowering woods. As in the... | |
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Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most. 
