 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 366 pàgines
...all ready to speak to me at once; and before I could draw my chair, my lady herself . repeated: ' ' Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire; Beauty soun grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous iMarcia... | |
 | 1822 - 494 pàgines
...from enjoyment. In a word, the continuance of his passion fully refuted the remark of the poet, that Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Philosophers are as liable to make false steps as other men. Wentworth himself formed a design which... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pàgines
...; 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...I admire. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades-.in his eye, and palls upon the sense.. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her sex : True, she... | |
 | Grace Kennedy - 1823 - 720 pàgines
...out unmeaning professions, but he was too passionate an admirer of beauty to declare, " that it was not a set of features or complexion, the tincture of a skin that he admired ;" he hoped — he believed — he was certain, a short time would restore Miss Coventry's... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pàgines
...hapless woman still to make her wretched ! Betray'd by thee, how many are undone ! Patterson's Arminius. 'Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture...lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Addisorfs Cato. Beauty That transitory flower : ev'n while it lasts Palls on the roving sense, when... | |
 | British drama - 1824 - 834 pàgines
...Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Julu. Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture...familiar to the lover. Fades in his eye, and palls upon his sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair, (oh, how divinely fair !)... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 458 pàgines
...prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Jub. 'Tis not a set of features, nor complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire;...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... | |
 | 1824 - 660 pàgines
...forget The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Juba. 'Tis not a set of features, nor complexion; Tbe tincture of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his ere, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair, — О... | |
 | Relapse - 1824 - 230 pàgines
...Suddenly starting from his reverie, he burst into a passionate repetition of Juba's speech — . ' .. " The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex. True, she is fair— oh how divinely fair I—- But still the lovely maid improves her charms With winning greatness, unaffected wisdom, And... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1826 - 512 pàgines
...prince, you'd soon for^ The pale unripen'd beauties of the north. Julm. Tis not a set of features, nor complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire...virtuous Marcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair — O how divinely fair ! — But still the lovely maid improves her charms With inward greatness,... | |
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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. 
