 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...beauty, she was beauty's self, Recluse amid the close embow'ring woods. 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. Bishop Lowth says,... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 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 - Readers - 1910 - 106 pages
...world supplies; While thus the land, adorned for pleasure, all 285 In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female unadorned and plain, Secure...supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes; 290 But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail,... | |
 | English literature - 1910 - 408 pages
...world supplies: 285 While thus the land, adorned for pleasure all, In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorned and plain, Secure...Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies, 290 Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes; But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...world supplies: While thus the land, adorned for pleasure, all In barren splendour feebly waits the rs of guns, Took the breath from our sails, and we stay'd. supIts vistas strike, its palaces surprise; While, scourged by famine, from the smiling land 299 The... | |
 | Richard Ashe King - Authors, English - 1910 - 370 pages
...It is a little like the difference between the youth and age of the maid in The Deserted Village:— "As some fair female, unadorned and plain, Secure...please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every bprrowed charm which dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes. But when those charms... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 298 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... | |
 | Robert Porter St. John - American poetry - 1911 - 270 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 ; 290 But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail,... | |
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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... 
