In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's... Comus, a Mask - Σελίδα 37των John Milton - 1797 - 66 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 σελίδες
...neglected rose It vithen on the stalk with languish'd head. Beuity is nature's brag, and must be shown at wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that Tney hd their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply 750 IV... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 428 σελίδες
...twine " His braided train, and of his fatal guile " Gave proof unheeded."— Par. Lost, B IV, 1. 347. " coarse complexions, " And cheeks of sorry grain, will..." The sampler, and to teaze the housewife's wool." Comus, I. 749. Henley. 2 Advocate 's the court-word for a pheasant ;] As he was a suitor from the country,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 446 σελίδες
..." His braided train, and of his fatal guile " Gave proof unheeded." — Par. Lost, b. iv. 1. 347. " coarse complexions, " And cheeks of sorry grain, will..." The sampler, and to teaze the housewife's wool." Comus, 1. 749. HENLEY. 1 ADVOCATE'S the court-word for a PHEASANT ;] As he was a suitor from the country,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 506 σελίδες
...young Leander cross'd the Hellespont 6. has the same play on words, in his Masque at Ludlow Castle : " It is for homely features to keep home, " They had their name thence." STEEVENS. 5 SHAPELESS IDLENESS.] The expression is fine, as implying that idleness prevents the giving... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 σελίδες
...neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where...sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses... | |
| John Milton - 1823 - 220 σελίδες
...neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where...sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 σελίδες
...Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shewn In courts, in feasts, and high solemnities, Where roost ever in suspence to dwell, 'Tis now no kettle, but a bell. A wooden jack, which had almost tease the housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 σελίδες
...neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where...They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And checks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, aud to tease the housewife's wool. What need... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 428 σελίδες
...1. But earlier happy is the rose iKstiU'd, Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown In courts^ in feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder...home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions 745 Than that, which withering on the virgin thorn, , Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 σελίδες
...the stalk with languish'd head. Ueauty is Nature's brae, and must be shown In i/Juris, in feasts, ana high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, 760 They had their name thence ; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The... | |
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