...required no ornaments "—thus anticipating our English poet of the Seasons, in his oft-quoted lines : Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament ; But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. The Persian Sa'dl was also an admirer of beauty unadorned : " The face of a beloved mistress requireth...

...am unfashionable, too ; for to my mind she is perfection — in dress as in all things else." " True loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament ; but is when unadorned adorned the most," chimed in Mr. Devereaux. " I see nothing wanting in your sister's attire, Mrs. Devereaux. A plain garment...

...for a virgin to be lost in a blushing silence than to be found in a bold eloquence. — Quarles. 914 Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament ; but is, when unadorned, adorned the most. — Thomson. 915 Beauty ! thou pretty plaything, dear deceit ! — Blair. 916 The soul-subduing sentiment,...

...huzzas. — Id. Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Man never is, but always to be blest. — Id. Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. — THOMSON. No man can improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some...

...ungepufct, 'when not in grand toilet;' or 'when unadorned.' Compare the well-known verse by Thomson : ' Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorn'd the most." 1. 21. war — noHjlwenktg : say, 'may perhaps be necessary.' In accordance with...

...something, therefore, that corresponds with right reason, and is not merely the creature of fancy. Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophratus, a silent cheat;...

...on her polished limbs, Veiled in a simple robe ; their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. Thoughtless of beauty, she was beauty's self, Recluse amid the close embowering woods. As in the hollow...

...stemmed the torrent of a downward age. Line isio. Autumn nodding o'er the yellow plain. Autumn. Line -2. Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most.1 Line 204. He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty concealed....

...pulcrast, nimis ornatast.' Id ¡pan in, 'the very absence of adornment.' Thomson's Seasons, Autumn 204, 'Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament. But is, when unadorned, adorned the most'. etiam Incompta, 'even in disarray', lit. 'unkempt', used to keep up the comparison of the oratio to...

...improve none. If a woman's ear be pretty what in the whole of nature can be prettier ? Surely it " Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, ^ But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." If it be not pretty — well, why emphasize and call attention to the fact by means of gold and silver...