 | Scotland - 1842 - 1552 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 shires with art the triumph of her eyes. But when those charms... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 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 trinmph of her eyes ; But when those charms... | |
 | English poetry - 1843 - 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...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 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...supplies, N'or shares with art the triumph of her eye»; But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorned and plain, Secare ess From my lips would flow, The world should listen then, as I am listenin drees supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms are past, for charms... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1845 - 276 pages
...female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign. 288 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pages
...land ndorn'd for pleasure, all n barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadom'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Sor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; '.i, when those charms... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...product flics, For all the luxuries the world supplies. As some fair female, unadorned and plain, II Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights...art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms arc past, (for charms are frail, f When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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 trinmph of her eyes ; But when those charms... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 446 pages
...supplies. While thus the land, adorned for pleasure all, In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. 15 As some fair female, unadorned and plain, Secure to...when those charms are past — for charms are frail — 20 When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to^ bless, In all... | |
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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... 
