 | English poetry - 1800 - 322 pages
...land adorn'd for pleasure all In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, . Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes: But when those charms... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1803 - 192 pages
...adorn'd for pleasure, all In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 pages
...adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please, while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...adorn'd for pleasure, all In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadurn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes; But when those charms... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 330 pages
...land adorn'd for pleasure all In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes : But when those charms... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 322 pages
...land adorn'd for pleasure, all In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...land adorn'd for pleasure, all In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...adorn'd for pleasure, all In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies. Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes; But when those charms... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights tv'iy borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; i.:m when those charms are past, for charms are When time advances, and when lovers fail, [frail,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...land adorn'd for pleasure all In barren splendor feebly waits the fall. As some fair female, unadorn'd and plain, Secure to please while youth confirms her reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes: But when those charms... | |
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But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances and when lovers fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress... 
