 As some fair female unadorned and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances,...  Poems, Plays and Essays - Pągina 30per Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 384 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Moore - 1792 - 584 pągines
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 | 1792 - 112 pągines
...that drefs fupplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when thofe charms are paft, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, felicitous to blefs, In all the glaring impotence of drefs. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 pągines
...Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights ev'ry borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes; But when...rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling land The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pągines
...Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes: But when...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury belray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pągines
...Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when...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 splendours rise,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pągines
...that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms are pass'd, for charms are frail, When time advances, and when...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 splendours rise,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 pągines
...Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights ev'ry borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when...all the glaring impotence of dress : Thus fares the laud, by luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd ; But verging to decline, its... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pągines
...Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes : But when...charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pągines
...Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes; But when those charms are past, for charms arc frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1807 - 502 pągines
...Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies ; Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes : But when...solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. Thvw fares the land, by luxury betray'd, In natures simplest charms at first anay'd, But verging to... | |
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