 | British poets - 1809 - 526 pages
...reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies. Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes; But when those charms are past, for charms are frail....splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise; , srnnrg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band; And while he... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 308 pages
...reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,...its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land. The mournful peasant leads his humble band... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...her eyei : But when those charms are past (for chirms are frail) When time advances, and when form fail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless,...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury hrtray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first arrny'd; But, verging to decline, ils splendours rise,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...supplies Nor shares wiih art the triumph of her eyes:. BiHwhen thosccharmsarc | >;tst ( for charins:i re that comes or soon or late, Or aims, or seems to...From you, remote, methinks, alone I stand, Like som drrss. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray 'd, In nature's simplest charms at first arrny'd ; ' But,... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes: But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,...its splendors rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprize; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 470 pages
...reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,...impotence of dress. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray 'd, In nature's simplest charms at first array 'd, But verging to decline, its splendors rise,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 pages
...those charms are past, for f^arms are frail, ... When time advan^j, and when lovers fail, £ Vn'ines forth, solicitous to bless, .:. In all the glaring...vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While scourg'd by famirie from the smiling land, The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he sinks, without... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...reign, Slights every borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms are past, (for charms are frail...rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourged by famine from the smiling land. The mournful peasant leads his humble band ; And while he... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...eyes ; When time advances, and when lovers fail, But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, She then shines forth, solicitous to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress : In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, But verging... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 pages
...reign, Slights ev'ry borrow'd charm that dress supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes ; But when those charms are past, for charms are frail,...impotence of dress : Thus fares the land, by luxury betray' d, In nature's simplest charms at first array'd ; But verging to decline, its splendors rise,... | |
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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. 
