Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed : Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Reliques of ancient English poetry, by T. Percy - 345 ページEnglish poetry, Thomas Percy (bp. of Dromore) 著 - 1880 - 438 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
| George Ellis - 1811 - 482 ページ
...Since when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. SONG. [From " The Silent Woman."] STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 ページ
...her oil'd lips upon, like a sponge. I have made a song, 1 pr'ythee hear it, o' the subject. SONG. • Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ' ; Still tu be powdered, still perfum'd: Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found.... | |
| Michel de Montaigne, Pierre Coste - 1811 - 576 ページ
...drcst, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be prcsum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.f Some of the ancient poets have even asserted that to smell sweet, is to stink : as may be judged... | |
| Thomas Percy - 1812 - 456 ページ
...Semper ntunditias, semper Basilissa, decoras, &c." See Whalley's Ben. Jonson, vol. II. p. 420. OTILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to...be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, 5 All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a looke, give me a face, That makes simplicitie a grace... | |
| 1814 - 262 ページ
...sweet, when she lias no scent ; which may be best illustrated by the following lines from Ben Jonson : " Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfum'd, Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
| 1814 - 568 ページ
...she has no scent ; which may be best illustrated by the followiug lines from Ben Jonson : " StilTto be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfum'd, Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 ページ
...bright.' The following pieces deserve, also, to be here transcribed. Song, in his ' Silent Woman' ' Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfumed — Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 ページ
.... Song, in his ' Silent Woman.' • Still to be powder'd, still perfumedLady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free — Such sweet... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 518 ページ
...oil'd lips upon, like a sponge. I have made a song (I pray thee hear it) on the subject, [Pag* sings. Still to be neat, still to be drest* As you were going to a feast ; 1 " This song," says Upton, " is very happily imitated from the following poem, which I found at... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 ページ
...short soever : Thou that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright. rilUM THE MLF.NT HUM VS. powdered, still pcrfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found. All is... | |
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