| Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 страница
...beauty, she was beauty's self, Recluse amid the close embow'ring woods. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow 'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes. Bishop Lowth says,... | |
| English poems - 1870 - 722 страница
...adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes : But when those charms... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1910 - 106 страница
...world supplies; While thus the land, adorned for pleasure, all 285 In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female unadorned and plain, Secure...supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes; 290 But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail,... | |
| John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - 1910 - 1174 страница
...While thus the land adorned for pleasure all In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. 286 As sonic S Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their ; 29° But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail,... | |
| 1910 - 408 страница
...world supplies: 285 While thus the land, adorned for pleasure all, In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorned and plain, Secure...Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies, 290 Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes; But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,... | |
| Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1910 - 776 страница
...world supplies: While thus the land, adorned for pleasure, all In barren splendour feebly waits the rs of guns, Took the breath from our sails, and we stay'd. supIts vistas strike, its palaces surprise; While, scourged by famine, from the smiling land 299 The... | |
| Richard Ashe King - 1910 - 370 страница
...It is a little like the difference between the youth and age of the maid in The Deserted Village:— "As some fair female, unadorned and plain, Secure...please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every bprrowed charm which dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes. But when those charms... | |
| 1910 - 298 страница
...adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms... | |
| Robert Porter St. John - 1911 - 270 страница
...female unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; 290 But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail,... | |
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