 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1813 - 124 pages
...land adorn'd for pleasure, all In barren splendor 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 j,' But when those... | |
 | English poetry - 1814 - 310 pages
...adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendor 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... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...land, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendor 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 ; When time advances,... | |
 | England - 1842 - 850 pages
...and he was compelled to take both in hand — and so it was best. " 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 - 1818 - 294 pages
...land, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendor 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 - 1818 - 274 pages
...world supplies: While thus the land, adorned for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorned and plain, Secure...the triumph of her eyes; But when those charms are past—for charms are frailWhen time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1819 - 120 pages
...female uriadorn'd and plain, Secitre 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, fur charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, <3he then,shines forth, solicitous... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...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 - English literature - 1820 - 488 pages
...world supplies. While thus the land adorn'd for pleasure, all In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female unadorned and plain, Secure...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 - Bible - 1822 - 194 pages
...female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youtli 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 pass'd, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous... | |
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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... 
