 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 sidor
...bastards, not her sons. Lint 727. It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. Line 718. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses... | |
 | 1884 - 750 sidor
...may wonder at the workmanship; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will...sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the Morn ? There was another meaning... | |
 | William Henry Kearley Wright - 1884 - 344 sidor
...sampler sew'd her mind." — Titus Andronicus. 2. A piece worked by young girls for improvement. " Coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to lease the housewife's wool." — Milton-Comue. " I saw her sober over a sampler, or gay over a Jointed... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1885 - 612 sidor
...name of a particular color : " It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain will...sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool. "What need a vermeil tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the mom? " Gram here does not refer... | |
 | John Milton - 1886 - 634 sidor
...may wonder at the workmanship; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that* Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 432 sidor
...His braided train, and of his fatal guile Cave proof unheeded. —Paradise Lost, ble. iv. 1. 347. — coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to ил*е the housewife's wool. — Comus, 1. 749." 210. Lines 768, 769: Advocate's the court-word for... | |
 | 1890 - 274 sidor
...stalk with languished head. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence, they serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes or tresses like the morn ? Think what, and be advised;... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 sidor
...hastards, not her sons. Line 727. It is for homely featnres to keep home, — They had their name thence ; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the hnswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctnr'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the... | |
 | John Milton - 1895 - 104 sidor
...workmanship ; It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, 750 And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the... | |
 | Roandeu Albert Henry Bickford-Smith - 1898 - 320 sidor
...veils between them. HOURISTAN 207 ' It is for homely features to keep home, They had their name hence ; coarse complexions, And cheeks of sorry grain, will...sampler, and to tease the housewife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn ?' — the harem question... | |
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Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities Where most may wonder at the workmanship; It is for homely features to keep home... 
