 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 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 - 1839 - 550 pages
...adorn'd for pleasure, all n barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd cive to national improvement. Skill in the professions is acquired more b bnrrow'd charm that dress supplies, \or shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; iut when those charms... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Medicine in literature - 1839 - 360 pages
...adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. 14 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 ; 13 Takes'] ' Abstulerat... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 pages
...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 art the...eyes ; But when those charms are past, for charms are When time advances, and when lovers fail, [frail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...please while youth confirms her reign, Slights ev'ry borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Ndr shwee with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms are past, for charms are When time advances, and when lovers fail, [frail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1840 - 504 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 - 1841 - 292 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 848 pages
...female, unadom'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reipn. Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; Bat when those charms arc past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...land adorn'd for pleasure, all u barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadom'd reader more difficult to be pleased, and abridge the author's power of pl borrow'd charm that dress suppliesi or shares with art the triumph of her eyes; Jut when those charms... | |
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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... 
