 If an ugly woman of wit and worth cannot be loved till she is known, — a beautiful fool will cease to please when she is found out. A greater variety — a more certain and rapid succession of miscellaneous homage — this truly is chargeable to beauty...  Essays and Sketches of Character - Pàgina 171per Richard Ayton - 1825 - 274 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1823 - 732 pàgines
...possession is more immediate, it is less secure ; if her rule is more absolute, it is less constant and durable. If an ugly woman of wit and worth cannot...disquiet. Instantaneous and universal admiration — the eye- worship of the world, is unquestionably the reward of the best faces ; and the male-contents had... | |
 | 1823 - 734 pàgines
...secure ; if her rule is more absolute, it is less constant and durable. If on ugly woman of wit «27 and worth cannot be loved till she is known, — a...ultra-sentimental should not make this barren honour a subject for then- envy and disquiet. Instantaneous and universal admiration— the eye- worship of the world, is... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 426 pàgines
...men, since the deluge, has provedi however, that love (the true thing) is not mere fealty to a face. If an ugly woman of wit and worth cannot be loved...fool will cease to please when she is found out." v In the words of a contemporary : — " Woman has never failed, since the world began, to illustrate,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 pàgines
...beauty, than the uneleet ; and hinc ill& lachryma ; hence undoubtedly their peevishness and spite. If an ugly woman of wit and worth cannot be loved...beautiful fool will cease to please when she is found out. Instantaneous and universal admiration — the eye-worship of the world, is unquestionably the reward... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 pàgines
...unelect ; and hinc illae lachryma ; hence undoubtedly their peevishness and spite. If an ugly * Eymett. woman of wit and worth cannot be loved till she is known — a beautiful fool will case to please when she is found out. Instantaneous and universal admiration — the eye-worship of... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 378 pàgines
...men, since the deluge, has proved, however, that love (the true thing) is not mere fealty to a face. If an ugly woman of wit and worth cannot be loved till she is known—a beautiful fool will cease to please when she is found out." In the words of a contemporary:—... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1882 - 448 pàgines
...porcelain of human clay. — Jeremy Taylor. 2484 If an ugly woman of wit and worth cannot be loved until she is known, a beautiful fool will cease to please when she is found out. — Ayton. 2485 A woman's soul is by nature a beautiful fresco-painting, painted on rooms, clothing,... | |
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