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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... "
New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent British poets and ... - Page 251
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be prcsum'd, Though art's hid causes arc glory of this world, I hate ye< I feel my heart new open'd. O, th' adulteries of art : They strike mine eye*, but not my heart. Hymn to Kama. [From ' Cynthia's Hevel»^...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd, still perfnm'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not...adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not mine heart. [Tic: Silent Woman.] 318 BEN JONSON. [Lecr. XIV. ADVICE TO A RECKLESS YOUTH. Knowell. What...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 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...adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not mine heart. [The Silent Woman.] Knouxtt. What would I have you do 1 I'll tell yon, kinsman ; Learn...
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The Book of English Songs: From the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1851 - 332 pages
...j'ou were going to a feast ; Still to be powderM, still perfumed, Lady, it is to be presumed, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet,...as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. ON CELIA SINGING. THOMAS C *P.EW, bom...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...dear ladies,') 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, Give me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity a grace ; liobcs loosely flowing, hair as free:...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...drest, AS you were going to a feast ; Still to be puwder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, ious herd, to m th' adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart, HAGS. 1. I HAVE been, all day, looking...
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Kidd's Own Journal, Volume 3

Arts - 1853 - 394 pages
...put it down.] THE POETEY OF SIMPLICITY. GIVE me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity ag^occ ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art ; Which strike mine eyes but NOT MINE HEART. BEN .losso.N. 224 KIDD'S OWN JOURNAL. THE MOOS '3 BAYS....
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Hausschatz englischer Poesie: Auswahl aus den Werken der bedeutendsten ...

Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...were going to a feast; Still to be pou'dred, still perfum'd: Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though arts hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a looke, give me a face, That makes simplicitie a. grace; Robes loosely flowing , haire as free : Such...
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Essais divers, Volume 1

Sarah Newton comtesse de Destutt de Tracy - 1852 - 452 pages
...chanter d'une voix forte et sonore : Givc me a look , givc me a face That makes simplicity and grâce. Robes loosely flowing , hair as free , Such sweet neglect more taketh me ! son amie. Se tournant vers celle-ci , elle lui dit du ton le plus humble : « II faut leur pardonner,...
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The book of English poetry, with critical and biogr. sketches of the poets

English poetry - 1853 - 552 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, That strike mine eyes, but not my heart. JONSO.V. ON LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD. THIS morning, timely...
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