 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - English poetry - 1816 - 262 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 drees all day, Charm'd the small. pox, or chas'd old age away, Who would not scorn what housewife's... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 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 smallpox, or chas'd old age away, Who would not scorn what housewife's cares... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 418 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 ; Who would not scorn whathousewife's... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 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; Who would not scorn what housewife's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 308 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, Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old age away; Who would not scorn what housewife's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...good sense preserve what beauty gains: That men may say, when we the front-box grace, Behold the first beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the i dress all day, Charm'd the small pox, or chas'd old age away ; Who would not scorn what housewifes'... | |
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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... 
