 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 850 pages
...NEGLECT. 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...neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art t They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. -BEN JONSON (1574—1637). GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. IT is not... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...dreet, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Tis somewhat th' adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Hymn to Diana, [From ' Cynthia's lli-vcIO... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...As той were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : lady, it is to be presum'd, at I was going ; And euch an instrument I was to use....eyes are made the fools o' th' other senses, Or else make* simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ; Such sweet neglect more taketh me... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - English fiction - 1847 - 168 pages
...in his eye when he composed that song ;" Then in a voice like thunder, she chanted forth — • |; Give me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity...loosely flowing, hair as free, Such sweet neglect more takcth me." Miss Grizzy was in the utmost perplexity, between her inclination to urge something in... | |
 | Marmion Wilme Savage - English fiction - 1848 - 238 pages
...bachelor pleased Mrs. Spread greatly, by recalling to her memory the exquisite lines of Ben Jonson— " Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity...taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; They strike my eyes, but not my heart." The miser asked Barker to take wine—sherry. Mrs. Spread could evidently... | |
 | Caroline Howard Gilman - Quotations - 1848 - 320 pages
...and an arm and hand Of most bewitching whiteness. PRAED — Haunted Tree. 55. Hers is a look, hers is a face That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely...flowing, hair as free — Such sweet neglect more pleaseth thee Than all the adulteries of art, That strike the eye but not the heart. BEN JONSON. 50.... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...frivolity — innocent mirth of the heart in place of that which is faint and sickly on the lips — Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Hobes loosely Hawing, buir as free : Such sweet neglect more taUeth me. Than all the adulteries of... | |
 | Cigars - 1849 - 134 pages
...Jonson : — " 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...free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all th' adulteries of art, — They strike mine eyes, but not my heart." But we grow rational, moral, dull... | |
 | 1849 - 508 pages
...Jonson : — " 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...free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me. Than all th' adulteries of art, — They strike mine eyes, but not my heart." But we grow rational, moral, dull... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causee are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Gire Or ere the th' adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Hymn to Diana. [From ' Cynthia'»... | |
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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... 
