 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...  The Sibyl: Or, New Oracles from the Poets - Page 59edited by - 1848 - 313 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...presum'd, Tho' 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 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... | |
 | George Ellis - 1803 - 468 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Lyre - 1806 - 208 pages
...presum'd— Though art's hid causes are not foundAll is not 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.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1810 - 330 pages
...presumed, Tho' 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 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... | |
 | 1811 - 596 pages
...charms of polite literature, as it is with regard to female attractions, V .. ' 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 '; ^.Thaa all the adulteries of art, . They strike mine eye, but not my heart.' The application... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1811 - 402 pages
...she left the room, Belinda heard Clarence Hervey repeat to lady Delacour— " Give me a look, gire me a face, " That makes simplicity a grace; " Robes loosely flowing, hair as free " he paused—but Belinda recollected the remainder of the stanza— " Such sweet neglect more taketh... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 518 pages
...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 simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, ever, whom he followed more closely, though he made " no boast of it;'' this was Johannes... | |
 | 1839 - 894 pages
...contains those delightful lines, which 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... | |
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