 Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face; That makes...  De Clifford: Or, The Constant Man - Page 241by Robert Plumer Ward - 1841Full view - About this book
 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art That strike mine eye, but not mine heart. HUE AND CRY AFTER CUPID. I BEAUTIES,... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 468 pages
...sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. [From " Masques at Court."] BEAUTIES,... | |
 | Lyre - 1806 - 208 pages
...sweet, all is not sound! Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free! Such sweet neglect more taketh...me, Than all the adulteries of art; That strike mine eyes, but not my heart. THOMJS CAREW. 1620. Sufficient honour has scarcely been awarded to the poetical... | |
 | Charles Snart - 1808 - 506 pages
...sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robe loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all th' adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. Ben Johnwn. VERSES TO A ROBIN REDBREAST,... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...swreti all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Rnbes loosely flowing, hair as free; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art That strike mine eye, but not mine heart. Vol. I. E HUE AND CRY AFTER CUPID.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1810 - 330 pages
...sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all th' adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. * B. JONSON. * This is one of a very... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace j Robes loosely flowing, hair as free: Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all th' adulteries of art ; t They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. IN THE DEVIL It AN ASS. XL. Do but... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free — Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all th' adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.' His Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free — Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all th' adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.' His Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke,... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pages
...everybody knows : — ' Give me a look, give me a face, That nukes simplicity a grace : Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ; Such sweet neglect more taketh me. Than all th' adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but notjny heart.' . There is something like Moliere... | |
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