 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights ev'ry borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with...fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 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...fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress : Thus fares the laud, by luxury betrayed, In nature's simplest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 pages
...diflerence between a conquering and a flourishing empire." — Citizen of the World. See vol. ii. p. 109.] But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,...fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd ; In nature's simplest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 476 pages
...Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Jstor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when...fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless. In all the glaring impotence of dress : Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd ; In Nature's simplest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...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...fail — She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. Thus feres the land, by luxury betray'd : In nature's simplest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...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...fail — She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd : In nature's simplest... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...supplies ; While thus the laud, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to...fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress : Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...Slights every borrowed charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; »o But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,...lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless In all the glaring impotence of dress : Thus fares the land by luxury betrayed ; 395 In nature's simplest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...supplies. While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to...fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd; In nature's simplest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 524 pages
...supplies. While thus the land, adorn' d for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to...fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd ; In nature's simplest... | |
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As some fair 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 triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time... 
