| Horatio Greenough - 1887 - 264 páginas
...brilliancy. She not only illustrated Moore and Byron, but contradicted Thomson, who asserts that " Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." After a winter in Florence, Horatio Greenough persuaded his brother to accompany him to Graefenberg... | |
| Gertrude Strohm - 1887 - 212 páginas
...proportion'd on her polish'd limbs, Veil'd 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, adorn'd the most ; Thoughtless of beauty, she was beauty's self. — THOMSON. A violet by a mossy stone,... | |
| Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 páginas
...THOMSON (1700-1748) Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments... | |
| Pierce Egan, Charles Hindley - 1888 - 264 páginas
...you have never shown it more than in the present instance — according to the poet, ' Beauty ; or, Loveliness, needs not the foreign aid of ornament, but is, when unadorned, adorned the most ! ' Going — CLEOPATRA, my Lord Duke, will be in other hands if your Grace does not make up your mind... | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1889 - 260 páginas
...the thought expressed. Page 113, lines 4, 5. Compare Thomson's well-known verses on loveliness : " Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." It must be remembered that Lessing translated Thomson's tragedies, and wrote an introduction to them.... | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1889 - 254 páginas
...the thought expressed. Page 113, lines 4, 5. Compare Thomson's well-known verses on loveliness : " Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." It must be remembered that Leasing translated Thomson's tragedies, and wrote an introduction to them.... | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1889 - 232 páginas
...to the thought expressed. Page 41, lines 4, 5. Compare Thomson's well-known verses on loveliness : " Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." It must be remembered that Lessing translated Thomson's tragedies, and wrote an introduction to them.... | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1889 - 224 páginas
...the thought expressed. Page 113, lines 4, 5. Compare Thomson's well-known verses on loveliness : " Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." It must be remembered that Lessing translated Thomson's tragedies, and wrote an introduction to them.... | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1889 - 224 páginas
...to the thought expressed. Page 41, lines 4, 5. Compare Thomson's well-known verses on loveliness: " Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." It must be remembered that Lessing translated Thomson's tragedies. and wrote an introduction to them.... | |
| Richard Halkett - 1889 - 766 páginas
...friends," and, of course, we all belong to the number, and are ready to assert, with her poet, that such loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorned »domed the most. What ! is it possible that this generation of readers does not know this fair maiden,... | |
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