 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...languish'd head. Beuity is nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, y castles in the clouds that Tney hd their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply 750 IV... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 446 pages
..." His braided train, and of his fatal guile " Gave proof unheeded." — Par. Lost, b. iv. 1. 347. " coarse complexions, " And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply " The sampler, and to teaze the housewife's wool." Comus, 1. 749. HENLEY. 1 ADVOCATE'S the court-word for a PHEASANT ;] As... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 506 pages
...young Leander cross'd the Hellespont 6. has the same play on words, in his Masque at Ludlow Castle : " It is for homely features to keep home, " They had their name thence." STEEVENS. 5 SHAPELESS IDLENESS.] The expression is fine, as implying that idleness prevents the giving... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...languish'd head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for...grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 220 pages
...languish'd head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for...grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shewn In courts, in feasts, and high solemnities, Where roost ever in suspence to dwell, 'Tis now no kettle, but a bell. A wooden jack, which had almost housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...languish'd head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for...They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And checks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, aud to tease the housewife's wool. What need... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...Demetrius, a. is 1. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, in feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for...home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions 745 Than that, which withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...languish'd head. Ueauty is Nature's brae, and must be shown In i/Juris, in feasts, ana high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, 760 They had their name thence ; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...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... | |
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Unsavoury in the enjoyment of itself ; If you let slip time, like a neglected rose It withers on the stalk with languished head. Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at' the workmanship... 
