| Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 páginas
...unripen'd beauties of the north. Jub. 'Tis not the set of features, nor complexion, The tincture of the skin, that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eyes and palls upon his sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair, (Oh how... | |
| Thomas Dibdin - 1815 - 496 páginas
...yon with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, nnripen'd beauties of the north. Juba. "fis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture...the sense. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her sex : True, she is fair, (oh, how divinely fair!) But still the lovely maid improves her charms With inward... | |
| Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 páginas
...unripen'd beauties of the North. Jub. 'Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of the skin that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to...the sense. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her sex : True, she is fair (Oh, how divinely fair !) But still the lovely maid improves her charms, With inward... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...: Were yon with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripen'd heauties of the North. Jul. 'Tis not a set of features or complexion, The tincture...eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair — O how divinely fair! But still the lovely maid improves... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 366 páginas
...all ready to speak to me at once; and before I could draw my chair, my lady herself . repeated: ' ' Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire; Beauty soun grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous iMarcia... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 508 páginas
...ready to speak to me at once ; and before I could draw my chair, my lady herself repeated : ' >rFis not a set of features, or complexion, The. tincture...eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex; True, she is fair (oh, how divinely fair !); But still the lovely maid improves... | |
| 1822 - 494 páginas
...from enjoyment. In a word, the continuance of his passion fully refuted the remark of the poet, that Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Philosophers are as liable to make false steps as other men. Wentworth himself formed a design which... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...; Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Jub. Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture...I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades-.in his eye, and palls upon the sense.. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her sex : True, she... | |
| Grace Kennedy - 1823 - 720 páginas
...out unmeaning professions, but he was too passionate an admirer of beauty to declare, " that it was not a set of features or complexion, the tincture of a skin that he admired ;" he hoped — he believed — he was certain, a short time would restore Miss Coventry's... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...hapless woman still to make her wretched ! Betray'd by thee, how many are undone ! Patterson's Arminius. 'Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture...lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Addisorfs Cato. Beauty That transitory flower : ev'n while it lasts Palls on the roving sense, when... | |
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