...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...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,...

...some fair female unadorn'd and pliin, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights cvtry borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with...by luxury betray'd ; In nature's simplest charms at tirst array'd, But, verging to decline, its splendours rise,Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise;...

...sloth Has robb'd the neighb'ring fields of half their growth ; His seat, where solitary sports arc seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitons to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. Thus fares theland by luxnry betray'd :...

...bounding wall, And, sick of flower and trim-dress'd tree, Long for rough glades and forest free. 1 [" As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to...solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress."—GOLDSMITH.] VI. " Three summer months had scantly flown, When Arthur, in embarrass'd tone,...

...female, unadorned and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the...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,...

...female, unadorned and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betrayed ; In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendours rise,...

...dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.' But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,...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,...

...bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds ; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken cloth, Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth...those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time ndvances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence...

...please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shires with art the triumph of her eyes. But when those charms...to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress." The quaint old maid with the affected gait is excellent, and the antiquity of the fashion judicious....

...female, unadorned and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrowed r betrayed ; In Nature's simplest charms at first arrayed ; But verging to decline, its splendors rise,...