 | English poets - 1790 - 364 lehte
...JUBA. 'T is not a fet of features, or complexion, The tinfture of a fkin, that I admire. Beauty foon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the fenfe. The virtuous Marcia towers above her fex : True, fhe is fair, (oh, how divinely fair!) But ftill... | |
 | John Bell - 1791 - 292 lehte
...; Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripen'd beauties of the North. Jub. '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... | |
 | Aesop - 1792 - 380 lehte
...'Tis not a fet of features, or complexion, 1 he tinfture of a ftdn that I admire ; Beauty. Beauty foon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the feiifc. The virtuous Marcia towers above her fex. True, (he is fair, oh, how divinely fair ! But ftiil... | |
 | 1795 - 460 lehte
...fueh defeQs, M to make indifferent features appear ve-v lovely ; on the other hand, •' beauty form grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and palls upon the fenfe;'. and though I do not meai to condemo beauty, in thii cafe, a< it certainly entit'ei a laly... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 476 lehte
...not a let of features, or complexion, The tinitur; of a (kin, that I admire : Beauty foon ¡;ro\vs familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the fenfc. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her fel : True, be is fair — O, how divinely fair ! But ftill... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 462 lehte
...; Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget The pale, unripen'd beauties of the North. Jub. '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 I) But still the lovely maid improves her charms With inward... | |
 | 1797 - 462 lehte
...pale, unripen'd beauties of the North. Jut. "Tis not a set of features, or complexion, The tindture of a skin, that I admire : Beauty soon grows familiar...the sense. The virtuous Marcia tow'rs above her sex : True, she is fair, (Oh, how divinely fair I) But still the lovely maid improves her charms With inward... | |
 | Mr. Addison - 1797 - 712 lehte
...are the following lines, which Addifon has put into the mouth of his Numidian Prince : Beauty foon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the fenfe. . Mr. Jolliffe having married his Lucy more for her features, and for her complexion, than for... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1797 - 626 lehte
...are the following lines, which Addifon has put into the mouth of his Numidian Prince : Beauty foon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the fenfe. Mr. Jolliffe having married his Lucy more for her features, and for her complexion, than for... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 380 lehte
...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... | |
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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. 
