 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 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 triumph of her eyes ; -» • [" Happy, very happy, might they have been, had they known when to bound their riches and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits its 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, Jstor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 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 - 1851 - 162 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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...While thus the land, adorned for pleasure all, 285 In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As Borne fair female, unadorned and plain, Secure to please,...supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; »o But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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 - 1854 - 524 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 - 1854 - 524 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... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 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, Xor shares with art the trinmph of her eyes ; But 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... 
