 | 1854 - 836 lehte
...Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forg^ The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north, Juba. 'Tie not a set of features, or complexion The tincture...familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon his sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair, (oh, how divinely fair!) But... | |
 | Sir John William Kaye - 1854 - 638 lehte
...to me the important part of Miss Marcia ; but whenever Juba began to recite the lines: ' The lovely Marcia towers above her sex — True, she is fair, oh how divinely fair,' the boys were all in a titter, and I was forcibly reminded of the small-pox. It was cruel to make me... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 lehte
...lily, or the mountain snow. Thomson's Seasons. 'Tis not a set of features, or eomplexion, The tineture of a skin, that I admire ; Beauty soon grows familiar...lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Addison's Cato. Yet graeeful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 lehte
...Seasons. 44 Tiä not a tet of features or eomplexion, The tineture of a skin, that I admire ; P. tuty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Addison's Coto. Yet graeeful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had... | |
 | 1856 - 570 lehte
...pain and cost. iSeaUtg,— Joanna Baillie. "WITH Goddess-like demeanor forth she went, ,— Addison. "TIS not a set of Features, or Complexion, The tincture...Lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Thomson. HER form was fresher than the morning Rose, When the dew wets its leaves ; unstain'd and pure,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 352 lehte
...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...I admire; Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades'in his eye, and palls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex ; True, she is... | |
 | 1859 - 828 lehte
...Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forge* The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Juba. 'Tis not a set of features, or complexion The tincture...familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon his sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair, (oh, how divinely fair !)... | |
 | 1859 - 836 lehte
...coon forgp The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north. Juba. Tie not a set of features, or complexk-a The tincture of a skin, that I admire : Beauty soon...familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon his sense. The virtuous Murcia towers above her sex : True, she is fair, (oh, how divinely fair !)... | |
 | Aesopus - 1861 - 254 lehte
...worthy of the least regard. Should one of these Hue creatures be addressed in the words of Juba, 'Tli not a set of features, or complexion, The tincture...her sex. True- she is fair ; oh, how divinely fair 1 But still the lovely maid improves her charms With inward greatness, unaffected wisdom. And sanctity... | |
 | Aesop - 1863 - 372 lehte
...worthy of the least regard. Should one of these fine crea tures be addressed in the words of Juba: 'Tis not a set of features, or complexion The tincture...grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and pulls upon the sense. The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex; True, she is fair, oh, how divinely... | |
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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. 
