| James Ferguson - 1819 - 366 Seiten
...repeated: ' ' Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire; Beauty soun grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous iMarcia towers above her sex ; True, she is fair; (oh, how divinely fair!) But still the lovely maid... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 508 Seiten
...draw my chair, my lady herself repeated : ' >rFis not a set of features, or complexion, The. tincture of a skin that I admire; Beauty soon grows familiar...eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex; True, she is fair (oh, how divinely fair !); But still the lovely maid improves... | |
| 1822 - 494 Seiten
...from enjoyment. In a word, the continuance of his passion fully refuted the remark of the poet, that Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Philosophers are as liable to make false steps as other men. Wentworth himself formed a design which... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 Seiten
...pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Jub. Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of- a skin that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades-.in his eye, and palls upon the sense.. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her sex : True, she... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...how many are undone ! Patterson's Arminius. 'Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire : Beauty soon grows familiar...lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Addisorfs Cato. Beauty That transitory flower : ev'n while it lasts Palls on the roving sense, when... | |
| Relapse - 1824 - 230 Seiten
...reverie, he burst into a passionate repetition of Juba's speech — . ' .. " The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex. True, she is fair— oh how divinely...But still the lovely maid improves her charms With winning greatness, unaffected wisdom, And sanctity of manners." — Then, rushing from the house, he... | |
| British drama - 1824 - 834 Seiten
...pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Julu. Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire : Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover. Fades in his eye, and palls upon his sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair, (oh, how divinely fair !)... | |
| 1824 - 660 Seiten
...pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Juba. 'Tis not a set of features, nor complexion; Tbe tincture of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his ere, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair, — О... | |
| 1826 - 434 Seiten
...could draw my chair, my lady herself repeated : "Pis not a set of features, or complexion. The tincture of a skin that I admire ; Beauty soon grows familiar...eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex ; True, she is fair; (oh, how divinely fair!) But still the lovely maid improves... | |
| George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 512 Seiten
...pale unripen'd beauties of the north. Julm. Tis not a set of features, nor complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire : Beauty soon grows familiar...eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair — O how divinely fair ! — But still the lovely maid improves... | |
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