..." Bich window* that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing." Thomson supplies — ' ' Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." " Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the joung idea how to shoot." ""lit ti..-...

...never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought. Shakspere's Henry VI. Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. Thomson's Seasons. The good die first ; And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket....

...Highness. There she stands, with no robe but her innocence; but, possessed of most bewitching beauty, — " Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." His Highness was delighted, and agreed to give the extravagant sum demanded, 40,000 piastres, for her....

...Highness. There she stands, with no robe but her innocence; but, possessed of most bewitching beauty, — " Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." His Highness was delighted, and agreed to give the extravagant sum demanded, 40,000 piastres, for her....

...friends, of one mind with Thomson that a simple robe was her best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most. Otherwise minded are most of his and her critics now. Only now and then is to be met with a sentiment...

...occurs a much-quoted sentence which has a peculiarly mischievous tendency. Loveliness, says the poet, "Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." Now we unhesitatingly put it to any girl, however beautiful, whether she believes in this high-sounding...

...therewith the sense and soul of man : " The passive master lent his hand To the vast Soul that o' er him planned : And the same Power that reared the shrine,...my soul in earliest days. I would not underrate the mediaeval saints, whose words and works have been my study in a manlier age ; yet I love best the fair...

...his own beauty is the only ornament he requires; he never looks so well as when he is simply clad: " Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." Thomson. An elaborate style of dress is quite out of place in the young, and is most unbecoming. There...

...figure, to forget or overlook what is due to nature. He has a subtle perception of that beauty which needs not the foreign aid of ornament, but is, " when unadorned, adorned the most." He knows the true nature of things, that it consists in the use ; and that if silver has its use, so...

...thus honoured with her Master's presence and " all glorious within " by the graces of the Spirit — " Such loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned adorned the most." III. Simplicity in life. Although we mention this last and briefly, we do not deem it the least in...