 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
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 σελίδες
...languish'd head. IVauty is nature's brag, and must be shewn I n eourts, in feasts, and high soleumities, ss, On mutual wants built mutual happiness : So, from the first, eternal order ran, And thenee ; eoarse eomplexions, And eheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 σελίδες
...withers on the stalk with languish'd head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, in feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder...sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 484 σελίδες
...better employed in this task: h Prose-Works, vol. iii. p. 330, ed. 1698. ' Apol. Smectymn. 1642. —' Coarse complexions, ' And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply ' The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool: ' What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, ' Love-darting eyes, and tresses... | |
 | Henry John Todd - 1826 - 458 σελίδες
...better employed in this task : h Prose- Works, vol. iii. p. 330, ed. 1698. ' Apol. Smectymn. 1642. ' Coarse complexions, ' And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply ' The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool : ' What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, ' Love-darting eyes, and tresses... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 548 σελίδες
...in thy danger, If ever danger do environ thee, 1 Milton has the same play upon words in his Comns. " It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence." 3 The expression shapeless idleness is admirably expressive, as implying that idleness prevents the... | |
 | D R. Thomason - 1827 - 230 σελίδες
...the more valued because discovered and not obtruded. But Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shewn In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship.* There is yet a further objection to the ball-room, which is deserving of attention. It is a maxim of... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 400 σελίδες
...escape ; but she could not make her way through the crowd, and the pitiless enchanter went on — " Coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler ; What need a vermeil tinctured lip for that ? Love darting eyes, and tresses like the morn ? " Here... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 276 σελίδες
...to ecaoe; but she could not make her way through the crov^ and the pitiless enchanter went on — " Coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler; What need a vermeil tinctured lip for that? Love darting eyes, and tresses like the morn ?" Here he... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 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 huswife's wool; What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 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...thence; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, wilt serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool; What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for... | |
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