 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.  Essays - Page 267by Michel de Montaigne - 1800Full view - About this book
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...were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd ; Lady, it is to be presum'd, Tho' 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... | |
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...The Silent Woman."] Still to be ppwder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, 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... | |
 | Poetry - 1808 - 506 pages
...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 not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robe loosely flowing, hair as free... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfum'd : li'ly, it is to be presum'd, 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 j Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:... | |
 | John Aikin - Ballads, English - 1810 - 330 pages
...were going to a feast; Still to be powdcr'd, still perfumed, Lady, it is to be presumed, Tho' 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 780 pages
...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. All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace ; Robes loosely (lowing, haïras free... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne, Pierre Coste - French essays - 1811 - 576 pages
...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... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne, Pierre Coste - French essays - 1811 - 572 pages
...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 not sweet, all is not sound.f Some of the ancient poets have even asserted that t'o smell sweet, is to stink : as may be... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...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 not sweet, all is not sound," £,-c. fyc. The French proverb lays a further embargo on the ladies ; " la femme de bien n'a ni yeux,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...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 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... | |
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