 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 páginas
...some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights ev'ry borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with...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,... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 páginas
...female, unadorned and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the...all the glaring impotence of dress : Thus fares the laud, by luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed ; Hut verging to decline, its... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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 - 500 páginas
...Letter xxv. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 348 páginas
...EjTT" As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, ^Secure to please while TOuth_confirms her reign, f> Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies,...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... | |
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 páginas
...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 arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendors rise,... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 páginas
...fenrnle, unadorned and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her rcijfn, 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 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,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 páginas
...the luxuries the world supplies : While thus the land, adorn 'd for pleasure all, In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd...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 splendors rise,... | |
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But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. 
