Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Who would not scorn what Housewife's Cares produce, Or who would learn one earthly Thing of Use ? To patch, nay ogle, might become a Saint, Nor could it sure be such a Sin to paint. But since, alas ! frail Beauty must decay... "
Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for ... - Page 185
edited by - 1791
Full view - About this book

The Vista of English Verse

English poetry - 1911 - 784 pages
...good sense preserve what beauty gains; That men may say, when we the front box grace, Behold the first in virtue as in face! Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charmed the small-pox, or chased old age away; Who would not scorn what housewife's...
Full view - About this book

The English Parnassus: An Anthology Chiefly of Longer Poems

William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...sense preserve what beauty gains : That men may say, when we the front-box grace : " Behold the first in virtue as in face ! " Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charmed the small-pox, or chased old-age away ; 20 Who would not scorn what housewife's...
Full view - About this book

English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson

Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...good sense preserve what beauty gains; That men may say, when we the front box grace, Behold the first pearly dew! The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Sh dross all day, Charmed the email-pox, or chased old age away; 20 Who would not scorn what housewife's...
Full view - About this book

English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...were not in the original version. That men may say, when we the front-box grace, 'Behold the first nversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points dress all day, Charmed the small-pox, or chased old age away, Who would not scorn what housewife's...
Full view - About this book

A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...good sense preserve what beauty gains; That men may say, when we the frontbox grace, 'Behold the first in virtue as in face! ' Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charmed the small-pox, or chased old age away, 20 Who would not scorn what ho cares...
Full view - About this book

Selected Poems of Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1916 - 160 pages
...sense preserve what beauty gains : That men may say, when we the front-box grace: "Behold the first in virtue as in face!" Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old-age away; 20 Who would not scorn what housewife's...
Full view - About this book

English Poems: From the College Entrance Requirements in English

Vida Dutton Scudder - English poetry - 1919 - 572 pages
...sense preserve what beauty gains, That men may say, when we the front-box grace, ' Behold the first in virtue as in face ! ' Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, 20 Charm 'd the small-pox, or ehas'd old age away; Who would not scorn what housewife's...
Full view - About this book

The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...sense preserve what beauty gains ; That men may say, when we the front-box grace, 'Behold the first ^. dress all day, Charmed the small-pox, or chased old age away, w Who would not scorn what housewife's...
Full view - About this book

Poems of the English Race

Raymond Macdonald Alden - American poetry - 1921 - 450 pages
...good sense preserve what beauty gains; That men may say, when we the frontbox grace, 'Behold the first in virtue as in face!' Oh ! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charmed the small-pox, or chased old age away, 20 Who would not scorn what housewife's...
Full view - About this book

English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...were not in >be original version. That men may say, when we the front-box grace, 'Behold the first ERAY (1811-1863) dress all day, Charmed the small-pox, or chased old age away, Who would not scorn what housewife's...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF