 | Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 508 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 Charmed the small-pox, or chased old age away; Who would not scorn what house-wife's... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 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 Charmed the small-pox, or chased old age away ; Who would not scorn what house-wife's... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1908 - 564 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... | |
 | Samuel Swayze Seward - American poetry - 1909 - 542 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 - 1909 - 132 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... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...sense preserve what beauty gains; That men may say, when we the front-box grace, 'Behold the first acred to her, while dress all day, Charmed the small-pox, or chased old age away, 14 For face-patches. i .Knens when repelling... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
