 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...  Ancient ballads and songs; with notices, including original poetry. By T. Lyle - Σελίδα 50των Ancient ballads - 1827Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Elizabethan age - 1862 - 150 σελίδες
...all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; STILL TO BE NEAT. Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect...of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. BEN JONSOX. TO THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA. You meaner beauties of the night, That poorly satisfy our eyes... | |
 | Wybert Reeve - 1862 - 224 σελίδες
...— " Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicitie a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, haire as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art, That strike mine eyes, but not my heart." But enough of this moralizing, let us take a peep at one... | |
 | 1863 - 568 σελίδες
...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...of art : They strike mine eyes but not my heart." From Bently's MUcellany. AFTER THE BATTLE IT is an old but never thoroughly recognized truth that man... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1866 - 412 σελίδες
...Simplicity , is one of the most characteristic of its author : — Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd,...of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Another of his exquisite songs is the well-known Hymn to Diana ,' is here addressed as the moon, rather... | |
 | British dramatists - 1868 - 138 σελίδες
...drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfumed : Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not...adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not mine heart Ben Jonson. IN PRAISE OF HUNTING. Hunting is the noblest exercise, Makes men laborious,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - 1868 - 758 σελίδες
...position. When among the former, Ben Jonson'a lines from the " Silent Woman, have often occurred to us : " Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity...of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart." Or Herrick'a " Delight in Disorder:" " A sweet disorder in the dress, (A happy kind of carelessness)... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1869 - 526 σελίδες
...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...of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. — BEN JONSON (1573 — 1637). GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. IT is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make... | |
 | 1869 - 746 σελίδες
...so easy to decide when you have but one presentable dress. Comforting herself with Ben Jonson — " Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity...of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart" — she presents herself before her hostess with the silk, the one lace collar indeed, but also with... | |
 | William Moore - 1870 - 104 σελίδες
...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...Than all the adulteries of art — They strike mine eye, but not my heart. BEN JONSON. XVII. QUORSUM munditiis studere semper Convivae similem, comasque... | |
 | Gilbert Malcolm Sproat - 1871 - 144 σελίδες
...MALCOLM SPROAT, AUTHOR OF " SCENES AND STUDIES OF SAVAGE LIFE :" " EDUCATION OF THE RURAL POOR;" &c. &c. "Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity...of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart." EDINBURGH : BEN JONSON. EDMONSTON & DOUGLAS. 1871. 270 / • CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Meaning of the centenary... | |
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