 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 482 pages
...drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not...loosely flowing, hair as free ; Such sweet neglect more takcth me Than all th' adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but Dot my heart. [from " Masques... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 780 pages
...As you were going to a feast ' ; Still tu be powdered, still perfum'd: Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found. All is not...face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely (lowing, haïras free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Thiin all th' adulteries of art ; They strike... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1811 - 790 pages
...As you were going to a feast ' ; Stjll to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not...look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Hobes loosely flowing, haïras free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all th' adulteries... | |
 | English literature - 1811 - 596 pages
...with regard to the charms of polite literature, as it is with regard to female attractions, V .. ' Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity...flowing, hair as free. Such sweet neglect more taketh me '; ^.Thaa all the adulteries of art, . They strike mine eye, but not my heart.' The application 'of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1811 - 402 pages
...she left the room, Belinda heard Clarence Hervey repeat to lady Delacour— " Give me a look, gire me a face, " That makes simplicity a grace; " Robes loosely flowing, hair as free " he paused—but Belinda recollected the remainder of the stanza— " Such sweet neglect more taketh... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne, Pierre Coste - French essays - 1811 - 576 pages
...drcst, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be prcsum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.f Some of the ancient poets have even asserted that to smell sweet, is to stink : as may be judged... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne, Pierre Coste - French essays - 1811 - 572 pages
...drcst, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.f Some of the ancient poets have even asserted that t'o smell sweet, is to stink : as may be... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 262 pages
...to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfum'd, Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes...are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound," fyc. $c. The French proverb lays a further embargo on the ladies; " la femme de bien n'a ni yeux, ni... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 518 pages
...cultivated latin poetry with considerable success. He affected to imitate Catullus : there was one, howStill to be powder 'd, still perfumed : Lady, it is to be...hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, ever, whom he followed more closely, though he made " no boast of it;'' this was Johannes Sccundus.... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...Woman' ' Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfumed — Lady, it is to be presumed, Though...free — Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all th' adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.' His Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke,... | |
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes... 
