As some fair female unadorned 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 are past, for charms are frail, When time advances,... Poems, Plays and Essays - Página 30por Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 384 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 páginas
...that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes — But when those charms are pass'd, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when...rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his humble band — And" .while... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 376 páginas
...not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.' Thomson. Autumn, 1. 202. But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,...luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array 'd, But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 páginas
...that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes — But when those charms are pass'd, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when...bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. Thus feres the land, by luxury betray'd : In nature's simplest charms at first array'd — But verging to... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 páginas
...Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; »o But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,...impotence of dress : Thus fares the land by luxury betrayed ; 395 In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But, verging to decline, its splendours... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 páginas
...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...rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 páginas
...to please while TOuth_confirms her reign, f> Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when...of dress : Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd ; ft. InJ^atureLs simplest charms at first array'd : But vergmg to decline, its splendours rise, Its... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 500 páginas
...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...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betra/d ; In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendours rise,... | |
| William Collins - 1854 - 430 páginas
...Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes : But when...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betrayed : In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendors rise,... | |
| George Croly - 1854 - 426 páginas
...Secure to please while youth confirms her rcijfn, Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when...impotence of dress : Thus fares the land, by luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed ; But verging to decline, its splendours rise,... | |
| Book - 1854 - 496 páginas
...confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Xor shares with art the trinmph of her eyes ; But when those charms are past, for...impotence of dress : Thus fares the land, by luxury betray 'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array 'd ; But verging to decline, its splendours rise,... | |
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