 | Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 244 Seiten
...could draw my chair, my lady herself repeated, 'Tis 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... | |
 | Hatchway (lieut, R.N., pseud.) - 1838
...II. Know'st thou this country ' SHAMFEAEI. Ti» not a set of features, nor complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire ; Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in hia eye, and jmlls upou the sense. CATO. Are violets not sweet because not fair? VIRGIL. " WHEN I recovered... | |
 | Acting drama - 1839
...pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Jnha. 'Tis not a sot of features, nor complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire : Beauty soon grows familiar...in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Slarcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair— О how divinely fair ! — But still the lovely... | |
 | John Hall - 1845 - 320 Seiten
...another flame1 and put out this'. Juba. 'Tis not a set of features', or complexion', The tincture of the skin', that *I admire'. Beauty soon grows familiar' to the lover', Fades' in his eye1, and palls upon the se1nse. IV. Emphasis is sometimes formed by raising the voice to a higher... | |
 | 1847 - 506 Seiten
...to be drawn by Love's own hand. DRYDEN. 12. "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. ADDISON'S Cato. 13. And those who paint them truest, praise them most. ADDISON. 14. All that painting... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 426 Seiten
...unripened beauties of the north. Ju. 'Tis not a set of features, nr complexion, The tincture of the skin, that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to...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... | |
 | Aesopus - 1850
...creatures he addressed in the words of Juha, -Tis not a set of features or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire ; Beauty soon grows familiar...'in his, eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Mareia towers ahove her sex — True she is fair — oh how divinely fair ! But still the lovely maid... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 476 Seiten
...familiar, should lose, proportionably, its power of giving ;. pleasure. Even "beauty," the poet tells us, soon grows familiar to the Lover, — " fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense." Man, as Nature has •wisely determined, must acquire the habit of attending to details, or the most... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 476 Seiten
...familiar, should lose, proportionably, its power of giving pleasure. Even " beauty," the poet tells us, soon grows familiar to the lover, — " fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense." Man, as Nature has wisely determined, must acquire the habit of attending to details, or the most magnificent... | |
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