| James Thomson - 1838 - 236 páginas
...fair-proportioned 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... | |
| Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1842 - 642 páginas
...presentable ! And how few of us, however good-looking we may chance to be, would agree with the poet, that "loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, but is, when unadorned, adorned the most." Even the fairest of the sex like to enhance the charms of nature by the aid of dress ; and the plainest... | |
| 1844 - 332 páginas
...dark hour o' anguish, the heartless shall learn That God deals the blow for the mitherless bairn ! Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. THOMSON. [Wiltten for the Young Laily'a Friend.] BT OP DISo!TVAY, ESQ. IN the year 1839,1 visited St... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...fair-proportioned on her polished limbs, Veiled in a simple robe, their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for z 9 c\\ 9osw P G l o rA O a Z7 W " g E; = $ f2L moat. Thoughtless of beauty, she was beauty's self, Recluse amid the elose-einbowering woods. As in... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...on her polished2 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 in3 the... | |
| Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 páginas
...fair-proportioned on her polished form, Vailed in a simple robe, its 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... | |
| 1849 - 314 páginas
...the aching pillow, — there was, to me, in all these, a real beauty, a " Loveliness Which needeth not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned, adorned the most." Hers was a devoted, generous heart ; a soul intent on doing good ; a mind of fixed and noble principles,... | |
| 1852 - 436 páginas
...substitute for the charms of simplicity. A vulgar taste is not to be disguised by gold and diamonds. ' Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." So think WE — not so, the million! HOW TO BBEAK OFF A BAD HABIT. — The late Mr. London, the celebrated... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1852 - 430 páginas
...Frankford often declared he never, before seeing them, felt the justness of Thompson's assertion, that -" Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament. But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." They were, indeed, beautiful girls — the Romillys were a comely race — and every fair reader .who... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1852 - 250 páginas
...often poured the balm Of healing into wounded breasts, nor sought The praise of men in doing good. 9. Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. 10. Ol all the causes that conspire to blind Man's erring judgment and misguide the mind, What the... | |
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