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" 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 homely features to keep home... "
The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 260
1806
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Twelfth night. Winter's tale

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 442 pages
...his fatal guile f Gav.e proof unheeded. . . .., '••••• ^ .,far,Los.tt P. IV- 1-347-coarse complexions, " And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply "The sampler, -and to leaze the housewife's wool." Comus, 1. 749. HENLEY. lojl. Advocate's the court-word for a pheasant...
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British Theatre, Volume 11

John Bell - 1791 - 294 pages
...wonder at the workmanship. " It is for homely features to keep koine, " They had their name thence : Coarse complexions, " And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply *' The sampler, and to teaze the housewife's wool." What need a vermeil tinctur'd lip for that, Tx>ve-darting eyes, or tresses...
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Comus: A Mask

John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 498 pages
...wonder at-the workmanship. " It is for homely features :to keep home, " They Itad their name tlrehce : Coarse complexions, " And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply " The sampler, and to teaze the housewife's wool." What need a vermeil tinftur'd lip for that, T.ove-darting eyes, or tresses...
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Comus: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of ...

John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 pages
...may wonder at the workmanship; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will...sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool. What need a vermil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn.? There was another meaning...
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Public Characters, Volume 7

1805 - 664 pages
...keenly this waste of abilities which they deemed well fitted for higher occupations. • •' ' •" Coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain, will...The sampler, and to tease the house-wife's wool."* * Comus, v. 750. 1804 — 1805. S They They could not bear to observe such a memory bur. dencdwith...
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Public characters [Formerly British public characters] of 1798-9 ..., Volume 7

1805 - 676 pages
...regretted most keenly this waste of abilities which they deemed well fitted for higher occupations. « . " Coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain, will...The sampler, and to tease the house-wife's wool."* * Coinus, v. 750. 1804—1805. S They They could not bear to observe such a memory burdencdwith all...
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Public Characters

1805 - 654 pages
...regretted most keenly this waste of abilities which they deemed well fitted for higher occupations. " Coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to ttase the house- wife's wool."* * Comui, v. 750. 1804—1805. S They MR. EGERTON BRYDGES. They could...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1805 - 434 pages
...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." Comns, 1. 749. Henley. 3 Advocate 's the court-word for a pheasant ;T...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pages
...song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds Had been incorp'rate. Sbatifeart. Coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The laiapler, and to teize the housewife's wool. fitiltan. 1 saw her sober over a tampler, or gay over...
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Cowper's Milton [the poetical works, with life, notes and tr. by W. Cowper ...

John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...may wonder at the workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the...
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