 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.  The Fair Penitent: A Tragedy - Sida 36efter Nicholas Rowe - 1797 - 57 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 sidor
...thing that has a value sat щчт u by the world, we shall live and die in misery. U. Tit not a Kt of features or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire. Id. Will obliges young heirs with a letting doy he has made himself. Id. \Vhen his fortune sets befure... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 288 sidor
...Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. JUBA. Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture...the sense. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her sex : True, she is fair, (oh how divinely fair !) But still the lovely maid improves her charms With inward... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1830 - 284 sidor
...cheeks : Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in...the sense. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her sex : True, she is fair, (oh how divinely fair !) But still the lovely maid improves her charms With inward... | |
 | Aesop - 1831 - 370 sidor
...them worthy of the least regard. Should one of these fine creatures be addressed in the words of Juba: 'Tis not a set of features, or complexion The tincture...eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex; True, she is fair, oh, how divinely fair! But still, the lovely maid improves... | |
 | British theatre - 1831 - 922 sidor
...orcomplexion, The tincture "of a skin, that I admire: Beauty soon groivs familiar to the lover, Fades in bis 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 her charms With inward... | |
 | 1833 - 828 sidor
...Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon tcrgct The pale, nnripen'd lieauties of the north. Juba. 'Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire: i Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, j» Fades in his eve, anil palls upon his sense. The virtuous... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1837 - 252 sidor
...countenance, 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...eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair ; (oh ! how divinely fair !) But still the lovely maid improves... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 sidor
...forget The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Juba. 'Tis not a set of features, or completion. The tincture of a skin, that I admire. Beauty soon...upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her s«: True, she is fair, (oh how divinely fair !) But still the lovely maid improves her chama With... | |
 | Hatchway (lieut, R.N., pseud.) - 1838 - 922 sidor
...became as one dead. CHAPTER II. Know'st thou this country ' SHAMFEAEI. Ti» not a set of features, nor complexion, The tincture of a skin that I admire ; Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in hia eye, and jmlls upou the sense. CATO. Are violets not sweet because not fair? VIRGIL. " WHEN I recovered... | |
 | Acting drama - 1839 - 936 sidor
...you'd soon forget The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Jnha. 'Tis not a sot of features, nor complexion, The tincture of a skin, that I admire...in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Slarcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair— О how divinely fair ! — But still the lovely... | |
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