 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 422 pages
...female, unadorned and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betrayed : In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendors rise,... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1860 - 274 pages
...please) while youth confirms her reign, | Slights every borrow'd charm) that dress supplies, | 2g0 Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ;] But...solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress : | 2g5 Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd ; | But... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...supplies, While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. 2. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to...then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring1 impotence of dress ; — Thus fares the land by. luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Henry William Dulcken - 1865 - 410 pages
...still the same. Not so the loss. The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied ; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space...luxury betray'd : In nature's simplest charms at first array 'd, But, verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1865 - 80 pages
...Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; 290 But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,...dress : — • Thus fares the land by luxury betray'd : 295 In Nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 pages
...female, unadorned and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the...impotence of dress ; — Thus fares the land by luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed ; But, verging to decline, its splendors rise,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 748 pages
...luxuries the world supplies ; — While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasures all, In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd...impotence of dress ; — Thus fares the land, by luxury betray 'd, In Nature's simplest charms at first array'd ; But verging to decline, its splendors rise,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 756 pages
...female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow 'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the...impotence of dress ; — Thus fares the land, by luxury betray 'd, In Nature's simplest charms at first array 'd ; But verging to decline, its splendors rise,... | |
 | English poetry - 1867 - 336 pages
...dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; 290 But when those charms are pass'd, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when...of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd ; 295 In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 1502 pages
...female unadorned and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrowed others literally died of hunger. At present the few...longer depend on the great for subsistence ; they betrayed : In Nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendours rise,... | |
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But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. 
