 | English literature - 1803 - 440 pages
...draw my chair, my Lady herself repeated, -. 'Tis not a set of features or complexion, , The tincnire of a skin that I admire ; , Beauty soon grows familiar...divinely fair!") But still the lovely maid improves her charm* \Vit\inward greatness, imaiiected wisdom, And sanctity of ma.ur.ev.•. »»• ... -..-.I was... | |
 | English drama - 1804 - 510 pages
...with these, my prince, you would soon f forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north. Jubn. Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture...: True, she is fair, (Oh, how divinely fair !) But slill the lovely maid improves her charms With inward greatness, unaffected wisdom, And sanctity of... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 954 pages
...you with these, my prince, you would soon forget The pale, unripened beauties of the north. Juba. Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture...in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marria towers above her sex : True, she is fair, (Oh, how divinely fair !) But still the lovely maid... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 pages
...The tincture of the skin that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lo\ er, Fades in his eyes, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers...lovely maid improves her charms, With inward greatness, unaflected wisdom, And sanctity of manners. Cato's soul Shines out in every thing she acts or speaks... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...more fire and colour in their cheeks : Went you wilh these t my prince, you'd soon forget Jub. 'Tis not a set of features , or complexion , The tincture...I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover , Fixdes in his eje, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her sex : True, she... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 470 pages
...Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget, The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. JUBA. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in...eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her sex: Truei she is fair, (oh how divinely feir!) But still the lovely maid improves... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...motions. Collie f. All corpuscles of the same set or kind agree in every thing. Woodward, T is not a iet of features or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire. Additon. I shall here lay together a new jet of remarks, and observe the artifices of 8ur enemies to... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...faces ; Such a face as did containe Heaven's shine in every vaine." So Addison, in his Cato: " 'Tis not a set of features or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire, &c." 1 Sir Henry Wotton's celebrated compliment to the queen of Bohemia will occur to the poetical... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 368 pages
...ready to speak to me at once ; and before 1 could draw my chair, my lady herself repeated.:. ' Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture...still the lovely maid improves her charms With inward greamess, unaffected wisdom, And sanctity of manners.' I was going to speak, when Mrs. Cornelia stood... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 446 pages
...Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Jub. Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture...eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her sex : True, she is fair, (Oh, how divinely fair !) But still the lovely maid improves... | |
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Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. 
