 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1831 - 328 pages
...appearance in such dress, is a complete incongruity. Sweetness of look and manner require simplicity of dress : For loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. Congruity regulates both the quantity and the kind of ornament ; the decorations... | |
 | John Close - 1833 - 182 pages
...£.,i«n;i , Sat fair proportion'd on her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a timple robe, their best aftire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness, Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorn'd, adora'd the most, Thtraghtless of beauty, she was beauty's self, Recluse amid the close... | |
 | M. Taylor - 1834 - 180 pages
...native grace Sat, fair-proportion'd, on her polish 'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. Thoughtless of beauty, she was Beauty's self. Recluse amid the close-embowering... | |
 | 1834 - 464 pages
...triumphs. Thomson describes the " polished limbs" of Lavinia, " Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament ; But is, when unadorned, adorned the most." Welsted's Love Tale contains a parallel thought. " She boasts more graces... | |
 | Flowers - 1835 - 174 pages
...native grace Sat fair proportion'd on her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. Thoughtless of beauty, she was Beauty's self, Recluse amid the close embowering... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 164 pages
...native grace Sat fair proportion'd on her polish'd limhs, Veil'd in a simple rohe, their hest attire, Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd. adorn'd the most. Thoughtless of heauty, she was heauty's self, Recluse amid the close emhowering... | |
 | James Thomson - 1836 - 200 pages
...native grace Rat fair projmrtion'd on her poliah'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,- ' " Hut Is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the nrnst. Thoughtless -of beauty, she was Beauty's self, Eecluse... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - 358 pages
...miseris tecta superbus ager.' Martial, Ep. 1, 2, 3 i4 ' Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.' Thomson. Autumn, 1. 202. But when those charms are past, for charms are... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pages
...miseris tecta superbus ager.' Martial, Ep. 1..2, 3 14 ' Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.' But when those charms are past, for charms are frail, When time advances,... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 pages
...native grace Sat fair proportion'd on her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most; Thoughtless of beauty, she was Beauty's self, Recluse amid the close embowering... | |
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Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. 
