 | Thomas Lyle - Ballads, English - 1827 - 272 pages
...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 neglect...of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. The two foregoing Pieces are by BEN JOHNSON, the friend and contemporary of Shakespeare. The last is... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...the countenance be shut.— Cicero. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect...all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, bat not my heart. — Jouson. acts. CHARLES I. renews the patent, granted by his father, to Benjamin... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...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 neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art, That strike mine eyes, but not my heart. EPITAPH. WOULD' ST thou hear what man can say In a little?... | |
 | Morris Mattson - 1835 - 224 pages
...poet's fancy when he exclaimed — " Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ! Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art, That take mine eyes, but not my heart." As she sat, thus lonely and silent, there was a fascination... | |
 | George Field - Philosophy - 1839 - 494 pages
...apostrophized by an eminent dramatic poet : " Give me a look, give me a face That makes simplicity a grace, Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art, Which strike my eye, but not my heart." BEN JONSOX. 1744. In all cases, decoration should be subjected... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 322 pages
...charm of his own imagination : — " Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ; — Such sweet...neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art, That strike mine eye but not my heart." In this apparently sweet neglect, but real propriety of dress,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 648 pages
...charm of his own imagination : — " Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ;— Such sweet...neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art, That strike mine eye but not my heart." In this apparently sweet neglect, but real propriety of dress,... | |
 | Hannah J. Woodman - American poetry - 1846 - 226 pages
...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 neglect...of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. A simple country editor, the fates have set you down ; As potent in your little realm as if you wore... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1847 - 850 pages
...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 neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art t They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. -BEN JONSON (1574—1637). GOOD LIFE, LONG LIFE. IT is not... | |
 | Marmion Wilme Savage - English fiction - 1848 - 238 pages
...exquisite lines of Ben Jonson— " Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect...taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art; They strike my eyes, but not my heart." The miser asked Barker to take wine—sherry. Mrs. Spread could evidently... | |
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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. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes... 
