 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1817 - 192 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,...charms at first array'd ; But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling... | |
 | 1842 - 850 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,...to bless, In all the glaring impotence of dress." The quaint old maid with the affected gait is excellent, and the antiquity of the fashion judicious.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 294 pages
...supplies, Nor shares with art the triumph of her eyes; But when those charms are past, for charms arc frail, When time advances, and when lovers fail. She...impotence of dress: Thus fares the land by luxury betrny'd ; In nature's simplest charms at first array'd, Eat, verging to decline, its splendors rise,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1818 - 274 pages
...shares with art the triumph of her eyes; But when those charms are past—for charms are frailWhen time advances, and when lovers fail, She then shines...impotence of dress: Thus fares the land, by luxury betrayed, In Nature's simplest charms at first arrayed; But verging to decline, its splendours rise,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 498 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,...charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine from the smiling... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 446 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,...charms at first array'd, But verging to decline, its. splendours nse, . Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ^ While, scourg'd by famine .from the smiling... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 314 pages
...reign, .Slights cv'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,...charms at first array'd ; But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While, scourg'd by famine, from the smiling... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1821 - 236 pages
...reign, Slights every borrowed 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 betrayed, In nature's simplest charms at first arrayed, But verging to decline, its splendours rise,... | |
 | 1821 - 284 pages
...supplies, While thus the land, adorn'd for pleasure all, In barren splendour feebly waits its fall. Thus fares the land, by luxury betray'd, In Nature's...; But verging to decline, its splendors rise, Its vistns strike, its palaces surprise ; Whilst scourg'd by famine from the smiling land. The mournful... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - 1822 - 428 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,...luxury betray'd, In nature's simplest charms at first ar;-ay'd ; But verging to decline, its splendours rise, Its vistas strike, its palaces surprise ; While,... | |
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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. 
